Dear Jenny,

The Annunciation is indeed incredible. No wonder you spent hours staring at it. I have been studying it at the Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/art/l/lippi/filippo/1440/10panel1.jpg), which lets you view it in various sizes. Lippi painted it from 1448 to 1450, so it was long before he painted his Madonna and the Child with Angels, which would be his last work (other than frescoes) personnaly executed.

Thank you,

Luis Miguel G. 

Hi Luis,

    I am late, again, please forgive.

Lippi's Madonnas are so superb. I love the way he always stressed the human aspect in his scenes. His Madonnas are mostly sweetly pious and sometimes appealingly pretty.

I have always appreciated his style, especially when he abandoned Masaccio's precepts in favor of the more decorative style, with his use of fluttering draperies, attenuated figures, and glowing colors.

Thank you so much for this forum, Luis.

Your Good Friend

Deborah

Dear Luis,

       As always I am so appreciative of the art lesson, it affords me a chance to enjoy something I love so much, but never seem to have enough time to stop and enjoy.

Your friend,

Gail

Dear Deborah,

Never mind your being late. I myself have no excuse for the delay in answering except for my being so busy that I have been absent from Adland for the most part of the past few days.

However, as always, I appreciate your learned comments which add to this forum. Actually Lippi's Madonnas appeal me for their beauty and elegance, though at the same time I find them most expressive in their very aloofness. 

Once again, thank you.

Luis Miguel Goitizolo