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BOTTICELLI, Sandro: Madonna and Child and Two Angels

🖼 Madonna and Child and Two Angels, c. 1470
Tempera on panel
100 × 71 cm
Naples, Italy

Soft gold leaf and tempera render the Virgin's serene face as she cradles the Christ Child, flanked by two delicate angels in luminous profile. Botticelli's lyrical line and ethereal palette define Florentine Renaissance devotion, establishing the intimate Madonna-and-Child formula that dominated quattrocento religious art.

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