1885
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Virgin and Child is a 1885 by Filippino Lippi, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print copies a painting by Filippino Lippi. It’s a Virgin and Child scene with soft colors and careful shading. The baby Jesus holds a bird while Mary looks down. The greasy ink sits on stone to make this print. Chromolithographs use water and grease to separate ink from blank space. This keeps the colors bright and even. See Lippi, Filippino for more of his work.
This chromolithograph reproduces Filippino Lippi’s Virgin and Child, depicting the Virgin kneeling beside the infant Jesus lying on rocky ground, with Saint Anthony Abbot in the foreground and Saint John the Baptist above him, while the Holy Trinity appears at the top. Produced for the Arundel Society, the print was created using multiple stones, each dedicated to a different color, following the transfer of a watercolor copy of the original fresco cycle. Subscribers to the Society, drawn from diverse backgrounds, widely distributed these prints, many of which later entered public spaces such…
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Filippino Lippi (probably 1457 – 18 April 1504) was an Italian Renaissance painter mostly working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance.
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