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CORREGGIO: Madonna and Child in Glory

CORREGGIO
🖼 Madonna and Child in Glory, c. 1510
Oil on wood
20 × 16 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft, luminous figures spiral upward in warm golden light, Mary and Christ child radiating celestial tenderness against swirling clouds. Correggio's revolutionary foreshortening and illusionistic depth pioneered the Baroque visual language, transforming religious imagery into intimate, emotionally transcendent experience.

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E. H. Gombrich
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