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GOZZOLI, Benozzo: Madonna and Child

🖼 Madonna and Child, c. 1460
Tempera on panel
84.8 × 50.6 cm
Detroit, USA

Soft gold leaf frames the tender embrace between mother and child, rendered in delicate tempera with luminous skin tones. Gozzoli's intimate composition exemplifies 15th-century Florentine devotion, merging Byzantine tradition with emerging Renaissance humanism through the figures' gentle psychological connection.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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