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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Madonna and Child with St Sebastian and St Julian

🖼 Madonna and Child with St Sebastian and St Julian, c. 1473
Fresco
San Donnino, Belgium

Golden light bathes the Virgin and Child centered between two standing saints, rendered in crisp Renaissance detail with balanced composition. This altarpiece exemplifies Ghirlandaio's mastery of devotional imagery, combining spiritual reverence with humanistic portraiture that defined Florentine religious art.

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