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BOUTS, Dieric the Elder: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1465-70
Oil on wood
28.5 × 20 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin's serene face as she tenderly regards the Christ Child in luminous detail. This Netherlandish masterpiece exemplifies fifteenth-century devotional intimacy, combining meticulous oil technique with profound spiritual tenderness that influenced Northern European religious art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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