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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: The Madonna of Foligno

🖼 The Madonna of Foligno, 1511-12
Oil on canvas
320 × 194 cm
Vatican, Italy

Golden light bathes Madonna and Child enthroned above earthly donors in a sweeping landscape, rendered with Renaissance perfection and spatial harmony. This altarpiece epitomizes Raphael's mastery of composition and theology, merging divine grace with humanist ideals of beauty and proportion.

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E. H. Gombrich
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