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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna with the Child

🖼 Madonna with the Child, 1460-64
Tempera on panel
47 × 34 cm
Bergamo, Italy

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Christ Child in tender intimacy, rendered through delicate brushwork and warm tempera tones. Bellini's composition established the devotional Madonna type that dominated Italian Renaissance art, balancing spiritual reverence with intimate human warmth.

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