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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: The Canigiani Madonna

🖼 The Canigiani Madonna, 1507
Oil on wood
131 × 107 cm
Munich, Germany

Soft brushwork renders Madonna and Child in intimate domestic space, flanked by young Saint John and Saint Elizabeth. Raffaello's harmonious composition epitomizes High Renaissance ideals of grace and spiritual tenderness, establishing the devotional Madonna format that influenced generations of artists.

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E. H. Gombrich
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