Why would a painting be semicircular? | Fra Filippo Lippi | National Gallery
Curatorial Fellow Nicholas Flory takes a look at the details in Fra Filippo Lippi's painting of the Archangel Gabriel with Mary and explores the surprising location for where this painting might have been hung.
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