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GIULIO ROMANO: Coronation of the Virgin (Madonna of Monteluce)

🖼 Coronation of the Virgin (Madonna of Monteluce), 1505-25
Oil on wood
354 × 232 cm
Vatican, Italy

Celestial light bathes hierarchical figures in gold; the Virgin ascends while saints and angels witness her coronation in sweeping, dramatic composition. Giulio Romano's masterwork synthesizes Raphael's classicism with Mannerist dynamism, establishing the Counter-Reformation's visual language of divine majesty and emotional intensity.

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