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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna with Child

🖼 Madonna with Child, 1450-55
Tempera on wood
47 × 31.5 cm
Pavia, Italy

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Child in tender intimacy, rendered with Bellini's characteristic luminous oil technique and delicate detail. This devotional image exemplifies Venetian Renaissance mastery of light and emotion, establishing the serene Madonna type that influenced generations of Italian painters.

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E. H. Gombrich
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