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GOSSART, Jan: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, c. 1522
Oil on oak panel
39 × 30 cm
Oldenburg, Germany

Tender intimacy unfolds as Mary cradles the Christ Child in luminous detail, their figures rendered with jewel-like precision against architectural grandeur. Gossart synthesizes Flemish devotion with Italian Renaissance monumentality, creating an iconic image that defined Northern European sacred art's aesthetic revolution in the early sixteenth century.

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