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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna with Child

🖼 Madonna with Child, 1504-08
Black chalk, blending stump, stylus on paper
211 × 184 cm
Florence, Italy

Tender intimacy radiates through soft modeling and pyramidal composition as Madonna gazes downward while Christ Child reaches outward. Raffaello's harmonious balance and graceful naturalism established the definitive High Renaissance ideal of maternal devotion, influencing centuries of religious art.

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