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LOMBARDO, Pietro: Altar of San Giobbe

🖼 Altar of San Giobbe, 1493
Photographic reproduction
Venice, Italy

Soft marble and gilded relief create an ornate Renaissance altar framing sacred imagery with geometric precision. Lombardo's architectural masterpiece established the vocabulary of Venetian church decoration, blending classical proportions with Byzantine luminosity.

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The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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