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MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1675-80
Pen and brown ink with brown wash
214 × 154 cm
Philadelphia, USA

Soft light bathes the Virgin and Child in intimate tenderness, their figures rendered with delicate brushwork against a luminous background. Murillo's devotional masterpiece epitomizes Spanish Baroque sentiment, blending spiritual warmth with accessible humanity that deeply influenced religious art across Europe.

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E. H. Gombrich
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