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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna with Child and Saints

🖼 Madonna with Child and Saints, c. 1502
Oil on wood
34 × 29 cm
Berlin, Germany

Golden light bathes the Virgin and Child, flanked by saints in harmonious symmetry. Raphael's balanced composition and serene figures epitomize High Renaissance ideals, establishing the devotional altarpiece as the era's defining sacred form.

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E. H. Gombrich
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