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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger: The Solothurn Madonna

🖼 The Solothurn Madonna, 1522
Limewood
141 × 102 cm
Solothurn, Switzerland

Tender brushwork renders Mary and Christ child in luminous detail, their intimacy framed by architectural grandeur and jeweled tones. Holbein's masterwork synthesizes Italian Renaissance ideals with Northern precision, establishing him as a bridge between artistic traditions in early sixteenth-century Europe.

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