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CORREGGIO: Madonna

CORREGGIO
🖼 Madonna, 1512-14
Oil on canvas
Milan, Italy

Soft light bathes the Madonna's tender face as she gazes downward, her figure rendered in luminous oil with delicate modeling. Correggio's intimate devotional image pioneered the emotional warmth and illusionistic grace that defined High Renaissance spirituality in Northern Italy.

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E. H. Gombrich
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