Seven Saints

Filippo Lippi's Seven Saints, painted around 1449 and now in the National Gallery, London, depicts a group of saints in a unified composition that contributed to the development of the sacra conversazione format in Florentine painting. Lippi's ability to individualize each saint while maintaining compositional harmony demonstrated his growing mastery of multi-figure compositions. The work dates to his period of intense productivity in Florence before his departure for Prato.

Lippi renders the seven saints with his characteristic elegant line and soft modeling, using a refined palette and careful spatial arrangement that groups the figures naturally while maintaining the devotional clarity required of an altarpiece.