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VERROCCHIO, Andrea del: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1475
Tempera and oil on panel
85 × 64 cm
Frankfurt, Germany

Tender intimacy frames the Virgin's downward gaze as she cradles the Christ Child in soft modeling and precise linear perspective. Verrocchio's masterwork exemplifies early Renaissance devotional art, blending Florentine sculptural training with painting's spiritual warmth and establishing the Virgin-Child formula for generations.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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