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ANDREA DEL SARTO: Birth of the Virgin

🖼 Birth of the Virgin, 1514
Fresco
413 × 345 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft light floods a Renaissance interior where attendants surround the newborn Virgin in tender gestures, rendered with del Sarto's characteristic sfumato. This intimate domestic scene revolutionized religious art by humanizing sacred narrative through naturalistic detail and psychological warmth.

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E. H. Gombrich
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