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GOSSART, Jan: Virgin and Child with the Veil

🖼 Virgin and Child with the Veil, c. 1520
Oil on oak panel
25 × 20 cm
The Hague, Netherlands

Tender intimacy emerges through soft brushwork as Mary gazes downward, cradling the Christ Child in luminous detail. Gossart's Northern Renaissance masterpiece synthesizes Flemish precision with Italian grace, establishing the devotional portrait as a powerful vehicle for religious contemplation and court patronage.

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E. H. Gombrich
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