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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna and Child

🖼 Madonna and Child, c. 1503
Pen and ink
114 × 130 cm
Oxford, United Kingdom

Tender intimacy emerges through soft modeling and golden light, as Madonna gazes downward while the Christ Child reaches toward her. Raphael's harmonious composition and idealized figures epitomize High Renaissance perfection, establishing the devotional Madonna-and-Child as an enduring Renaissance standard.

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