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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna and Child Blessing

🖼 Madonna and Child Blessing, 1510
Oil on wood
85 × 118 cm
Milan, Italy

Soft golden light bathes two figures in intimate stillness—the Madonna's tender gaze meets the Christ Child's raised hand in blessing, rendered with luminous tempera. Bellini's devotional masterpiece epitomizes Early Renaissance spirituality, combining Byzantine reverence with newfound humanistic warmth and psychological depth.

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E. H. Gombrich
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