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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and a Saint

🖼 Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and a Saint, 1500-04
Oil on panel
54 × 76 cm
Venice, Italy

Soft golden light bathes four figures arranged in intimate spatial depth, their serene faces rendered with Bellini's characteristic luminous technique. Madonna and Child occupy the composition's sacred center, flanked by saints in a devotional arrangement that epitomizes Venetian Renaissance harmonious balance and spiritual contemplation.

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E. H. Gombrich
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