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GIULIO ROMANO: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1520-22
Tempera on wood
105 × 77 cm
Florence, Italy

Tender brushwork renders the Virgin cradling Christ Child in warm ochres and soft shadows, their intimacy conveyed through gentle gesture and close proximity. Romano's balanced composition and humanized sacred figures epitomize High Renaissance ideals, influencing Mannerist approaches to religious imagery across sixteenth-century Italy.

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E. H. Gombrich
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