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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna, with Child Standing on a Parapet

🖼 Madonna, with Child Standing on a Parapet, 1460s
Tempera on poplar
67 × 49 cm
Berlin, Germany

Soft golden light bathes the Madonna and standing Child, rendered in luminous tempera against a distant landscape. Bellini's intimate devotional image pioneered the Renaissance focus on tender human connection between mother and son, establishing a visual formula that influenced generations of Italian painters.

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E. H. Gombrich
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