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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna degli Alberetti

🖼 Madonna degli Alberetti, 1487
Oil on panel
74 × 58 cm
Venice, Italy

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Christ Child in a Venetian landscape, with delicate trees framing the intimate scene in luminous tempera. Bellini's innovative use of atmospheric perspective and tender devotional mood established the model for Venetian Renaissance Madonna imagery.

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