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LOMBARDO, Pietro: Doge Leonardo Loredano before the Virgin and Child

🖼 Doge Leonardo Loredano before the Virgin and Child, after 1501
Marble
Venice, Italy

Soft gold light bathes a kneeling doge in red robes, presented to the Virgin and Child by Saint Mark in a marble setting. This devotional portrait merges Venetian civic power with religious protection, establishing the doge's sacred authority during the Republic's height.

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E. H. Gombrich
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