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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna Enthroned Adoring the Sleeping Child

🖼 Madonna Enthroned Adoring the Sleeping Child, 1475
Tempera on wood
120 × 65 cm
Venice, Italy

Soft golden light bathes an enthroned Madonna gazing tenderly at her sleeping infant, rendered in luminous oil with intricate architectural detail. Bellini's intimate devotional image exemplifies Venetian Renaissance spirituality, blending Byzantine formality with newfound human tenderness that transformed religious art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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