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CORREGGIO: Virgin and Child with an Angel (Madonna del Latte)

CORREGGIO
🖼 Virgin and Child with an Angel (Madonna del Latte), 1522-25
Oil on wood
69 × 57 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Tender intimacy unfolds as the Virgin nurses the Christ Child while an angel gazes downward in reverence, rendered with Correggio's characteristic soft sfumato and warm golden light. This devotional image revolutionized Renaissance maternal iconography by depicting intimate, human vulnerability rather than distant majesty.

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E. H. Gombrich
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