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FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI: Madonna and Child

🖼 Madonna and Child, c. 1472
Panel
75 × 51 cm
Avignon, France

Soft gold leaf and tempera create an ethereal Madonna cradling her infant in tender intimacy, set against a jeweled blue background. This Renaissance masterpiece exemplifies the Sienese tradition's devotional power, blending Gothic refinement with emerging humanistic warmth that redefined sacred imagery.

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E. H. Gombrich
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