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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Coronation of the Virgin

🖼 Coronation of the Virgin, 1486
Tempera on wood
330 × 230 cm
Narni, Germany

Celestial light bathes a symmetrical gathering of saints and angels witnessing Mary's coronation in gleaming gold leaf and tempera. Ghirlandaio synthesizes Byzantine tradition with early Renaissance spatial depth, establishing the coronation as the ultimate Marian devotion in 15th-century Italian religious art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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