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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Solly Madonna

🖼 Solly Madonna, c. 1502
Oil on wood
52 × 38 cm
Berlin, Germany

Soft brushwork renders the Virgin cradling Christ Child in tender intimacy, their forms unified through delicate sfumato against a luminous landscape. Raphael's harmonious composition epitomizes High Renaissance ideals of grace and spiritual devotion, establishing the Madonna type that dominated European art for centuries.

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E. H. Gombrich
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