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POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO: Schoolmistress with Her Pupils

🖼 Schoolmistress with Her Pupils, c. 1525
Red chalk
173 × 277 cm
London, United Kingdom

Intimate interior scene depicts a stern schoolmistress instructing three young pupils through direct engagement and gestural teaching. Renaissance documentation of education's social role reveals early modern pedagogy and childhood representation rarely captured in high art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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