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GOSSART, Jan: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, c. 1520
Oil on oak panel
39 × 27 cm
London, United Kingdom

Tender intimacy between mother and child rendered in jewel-toned oil, with intricate Flemish detail and luminous flesh tones. Gossart's work bridges Northern Renaissance devotion and Italian Renaissance idealization, establishing the Virgin as both holy icon and human presence.

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E. H. Gombrich
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