To: ELS; All
It is a mid-15th c. fresco from the Duomo at Spoleto, by Fra Filippo Lippi. The Coronation of the Virgin by God the Father.
Fra Filippo's women, especially his portrayals of the Virgin, have always seemed to me to be an unearthly ideal of feminine grace and beauty.
29 posted on
08/23/2006 11:25:24 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: murphE; NYer
30 posted on
08/23/2006 12:24:55 PM PDT by
ELS
(Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
To: AnAmericanMother
31 posted on
08/23/2006 12:26:44 PM PDT by
ELS
(Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
To: AnAmericanMother; ELS
Thank you for the research and posting the complete image. It is sumptuous. I could spend days, even weeks, staring at this one painting, always finding something fresh and new in its imagery.
32 posted on
08/23/2006 4:29:44 PM PDT by
NYer
("That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah." Hillel)
To: AnAmericanMother
35 posted on
08/23/2006 6:06:24 PM PDT by
murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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