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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

🖼 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, c. 1483
Tempera on wood
191 × 200 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light bathes the enthroned Madonna and Child, flanked by saints in Ghirlandaio's precise tempera technique and rich gold leaf. This iconic altarpiece exemplifies Florentine Renaissance devotion, blending Byzantine formality with emerging humanistic warmth that influenced generations of Italian painters.

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E. H. Gombrich
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