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GOSSART, Jan: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, c. 1527
Oil on oak panel
63 × 50 cm
Madrid, Spain

Golden light bathes the Virgin and Child in intimate tenderness, rendered with jewel-like precision and rich oil glazes characteristic of Flemish mastery. Gossart's 1527 composition synthesizes Northern Renaissance devotion with Italian Renaissance grandeur, establishing a new standard for Northern European religious portraiture.

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