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FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI: Madonna del Terremoto

🖼 Madonna del Terremoto, 1467
Panel
40 × 53 cm
Siena, Italy

Soft light bathes the Virgin and Child in a fortified landscape, their tender intimacy contrasting with architectural precision below. Commissioned after Siena's 1467 earthquake, the painting transforms religious devotion into reassurance of divine protection amid earthly disaster.

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E. H. Gombrich
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