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BOTTICELLI, Sandro: Madonna and Child with an Angel

🖼 Madonna and Child with an Angel, c. 1470
Tempera on wood
84 × 65 cm
Boston, USA

Soft gold halos and delicate brushwork frame the Virgin cradling Christ Child, while an angel gazes upward in tender devotion. Botticelli's lyrical composition exemplifies Early Renaissance spiritual intimacy, blending Florentine grace with profound maternal emotion.

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E. H. Gombrich
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