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FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI: Virgin and Child with St Catherine and Angels

🖼 Virgin and Child with St Catherine and Angels, c. 1490
Mixed technique on panel
62 × 42 cm
Pedralbes, Spain

Soft gold leaf and tempera render the Virgin cradling Christ amid attending angels and Saint Catherine, their figures arranged in intimate Renaissance hierarchy. This Sienese masterpiece exemplifies 15th-century devotional art, blending Byzantine reverence with emerging humanist tenderness toward maternal bond.

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E. H. Gombrich
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