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CORREGGIO: Madonna with St. Francis

CORREGGIO
🖼 Madonna with St. Francis, 1514
Oil on wood
299 × 245 cm
Dresden, Germany

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Child as St. Francis kneels in tender devotion, rendered with Correggio's characteristic sfumato and intimate warmth. This painting exemplifies Northern Italian Renaissance spirituality, merging mystical grace with humanized emotion that influenced Baroque sensibility.

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E. H. Gombrich
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