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GOZZOLI, Benozzo: Madonna and Child Giving Blessings

🖼 Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, 1449
Tempera on silk on a wooden mount
254 × 130 cm
Rome, Italy

Golden light bathes tender figures as Madonna cradles Christ Child in hierarchical composition, their raised hands bestowing benediction. Gozzoli's 1449 panel exemplifies Early Renaissance devotional art, combining Byzantine formality with emerging humanistic warmth that defined mid-15th century Rome.

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E. H. Gombrich
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