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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Sposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary)

🖼 Sposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary), 1504
Oil on roundheaded panel
170 × 117 cm
Milan, Italy

Perfect perspective lines converge on a Renaissance temple where Mary and Joseph exchange rings, rendered in luminous oil with geometric precision. Raphael's masterwork established Renaissance ideals of harmony and spatial depth, influencing generations of European painters through its mathematical composition and spiritual grace.

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