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BOTTICELLI, Sandro: Madonna and Child with Six Saints (Sant’Ambrogio Altarpiece)

🖼 Madonna and Child with Six Saints (Sant’Ambrogio Altarpiece), c. 1470
Tempera on panel
170 × 194 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light frames the Madonna's serene face as she cradles the Christ Child, flanked by six saints in delicate tempera detail. This altarpiece epitomizes Florentine Renaissance devotion, showcasing Botticelli's signature ethereal grace and linear elegance that defined 15th-century religious art.

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