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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna dell’Impannata

🖼 Madonna dell’Impannata, 1513-14
Oil on wood
158 × 125 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft light bathes an intimate domestic scene where Madonna tends the Christ Child while attendants gesture toward a window's delicate lattice. The composition revolutionized Renaissance devotional imagery by merging spiritual reverence with tender human warmth, establishing new standards for maternal tenderness in religious art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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