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BELLINI, Giovanni: Barbarigo Altarpiece

🖼 Barbarigo Altarpiece, 1488
Oil on canvas
200 × 320 cm
Murano, Czech Republic

Serene Madonna and Child command the center, flanked by saints in luminous oil glazes and precise Renaissance perspective. Bellini's devotional masterpiece established the Venetian altarpiece tradition, balancing Byzantine gold reverence with naturalistic Quattrocento innovation.

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E. H. Gombrich
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