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BELLINI, Giovanni: Virgin in Glory with Saints

🖼 Virgin in Glory with Saints, 1510-15
Oil on panel
350 × 225 cm
Venice, Italy

Golden light bathes the Virgin enthroned centrally, surrounded by saints in precise spatial arrangement, rendered with Bellini's characteristic soft modeling and rich color. This polyptych exemplifies Venetian Renaissance devotional art, establishing the sacra conversazione format that influenced generations of Italian painters.

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