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GIOVANNI DI PAOLO: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1440-45
Tempera on wood
32 × 25 cm
Altenburg, Germany

Soft gold leaf and tempera create an ethereal Madonna cradling the Christ Child, their figures outlined in delicate linearity against a celestial background. Giovanni di Paolo's refined Sienese style exemplifies 15th-century Italian devotional art, merging Byzantine tradition with emerging Renaissance sensibility.

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E. H. Gombrich
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