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GOSSART, Jan: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, c. 1525
Oil on oak panel
53 × 40 cm
Chicago, USA

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Christ Child in intimate tenderness, rendered with jewel-like precision and Renaissance grace. Gossart's fusion of Flemish detail with Italian humanism established a revolutionary model for Northern European religious imagery in the sixteenth century.

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E. H. Gombrich
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