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AGOSTINO DI DUCCIO: Virgin and Child with Five Angels

🖼 Virgin and Child with Five Angels, 1450s
Marble relief
57 × 51 cm
London, United Kingdom

Soft marble relief depicts the Virgin tenderly holding Christ Child, surrounded by five attending angels in graceful poses. This 1450s Florentine work exemplifies the delicate linearism and spiritual intimacy that defined Early Renaissance devotional sculpture.

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E. H. Gombrich
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