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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger: Darmstadt Madonna

🖼 Darmstadt Madonna, 1526 and after 1528
Oil on limewood
147 × 102 cm
Darmstadt, Germany

Tender intimacy dominates this oil panel: Mary cradles the Christ Child in warm tones against a jeweled interior, rendered with Northern Renaissance precision. Holbein's humanized Madonna challenged Italian idealism, presenting domestic devotion as spiritually equal to grand religious drama.

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