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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

🖼 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, c. 1479
Tempera on wood
170 × 160 cm
Lucca, Italy

Golden light bathes the enthroned Madonna and Child, flanked by saints in symmetrical splendor, rendered in rich tempera with meticulous detail. This altarpiece exemplifies Florentine Renaissance devotion, combining Byzantine hierarchical composition with emerging humanistic warmth and technical mastery.

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E. H. Gombrich
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