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BELLINI, Giovanni: Madonna with the Child

🖼 Madonna with the Child, 1487
Oil on panel
75 × 59 cm
São Paulo, Brazil

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Child in tender intimacy, rendered through Bellini's luminous oil technique with delicate modeling. This devotional image exemplifies early Renaissance Venetian painting, establishing the serene Madonna type that influenced generations of Northern European artists.

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