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GOSSART, Jan: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1525-30
Oil on oak panel
48 × 38 cm
Berlin, Germany

Tender intimacy unfolds in this Flemish panel, where the Virgin cradles Christ in soft, luminous detail. Gossart's precise oil technique and jewel-like colors established Northern Renaissance standards for intimate religious devotion, influencing generations of Northern European painters.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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