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Why was Fra Filippo Lippiās Coronation of the Virgin important in Florentine painting?
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Fra Filippo Lippi
Madonna and Child, tempera on poplar panel by Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1440; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 79 Ć 51.1 cm.
Fra Filippo Lippiās Coronation of the Virgin is considered a historic milestone in Florentine painting because of its technical innovation in composition. The work successfully united what would traditionally have been the separate panels of a polyptych into a single, cohesive scene.1
This celebrated altarpiece is noted for being exquisitely sumptuous in appearance and represents a complex, crowded arrangement of figures. While Lippiās artistic development was influenced by the plastic values of Masaccio and the serene chromatics of Fra Angelico, this specific work stands out for its structural advancement in creating a unified pictorial space.1