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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: Madonna and Child with the Infant St John

🖼 Madonna and Child with the Infant St John, 1514
Oil and tempera on wood
71 × 44 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft golden light bathes three figures—Madonna, Christ Child, and young John the Baptist—rendered with delicate brushwork and jewel-toned robes against a distant landscape. Cranach's intimate composition exemplifies Northern Renaissance devotion, blending Germanic precision with Italian Renaissance grace in this early masterwork.

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