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FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI: Madonna and Child with an Angel

🖼 Madonna and Child with an Angel, c. 1471
Panel
74 × 49 cm
Siena, Italy

Soft gold leaf illuminates the Virgin's tender gaze as she cradles the Christ Child, while a graceful angel emerges from shadow below. This intimate composition exemplifies Early Renaissance devotion, blending Sienese tradition with innovative spatial depth characteristic of 15th-century Tuscan innovation.

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