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LEYDEN, Lucas van: Virgin and Child with Angels

🖼 Virgin and Child with Angels, c. 1520
Oil on wood
74 × 44 cm
Berlin, Germany

Delicate lines render the Virgin cradling Christ amid attending angels, their faces luminous with devotion. This engraving exemplifies Northern Renaissance mastery of intimate religious emotion through meticulous detail and ethereal composition.

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E. H. Gombrich
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