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DOMENICHINO: Madonna and Child with St Petronius and St John the Evangelist

🖼 Madonna and Child with St Petronius and St John the Evangelist, 1629
Oil on canvas
430 × 278 cm
Rome, Italy

Soft golden light bathes the Madonna and Child at center, flanked by saints Petronius and John in balanced symmetry. Domenichino's classical composition exemplifies Counter-Reformation ideals, combining Baroque warmth with restrained elegance to reinvigorate devotional imagery in seventeenth-century Rome.

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