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GOSSART, Jan: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1532
Oil on oak panel
34 × 25 cm
Washington, United States

Tender intimacy unfolds between mother and child, rendered in luminous oils with jewel-toned robes and intricate detail characteristic of Flemish mastery. Gossart's 1532 composition synthesizes Northern European tradition with Italian Renaissance ideals, establishing the devotional portrait as essential to sixteenth-century religious art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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