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sacra conversazione

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sacra conversazione (Italian: ‘holy conversation’). A representation of the Virgin and Child with saints in which all the sacred personages are disposed in a single pictorial space rather than in the separate compartments of a polyptych; usually the figures commune silently, rather than actually conversing. The type originated in Italy in the first half of the 15th century: Filippo Lippi's Barbadori Altarpiece (begun 1437, Louvre, Paris) is perhaps the first dated example.

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sacra conversazione

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

sacra conversazione (It.: ‘holy conversation’). A representation of the Virgin and Child with Saints in which all the sacred personages are disposed in a single pictorial space rather than in the separate compartments of a polyptych. Usually the figures are shown silently communing rather than conversing. The type originated in Italy in the first half of the 15th century: Filippo Lippi's Barbadori Altarpiece (begun 1437, Louvre, Paris) is perhaps the first dated example.

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