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LOTTO, Lorenzo: Madonna and Child with St Ignatius of Antioch and St Onophrius

🖼 Madonna and Child with St Ignatius of Antioch and St Onophrius, 1508
Oil on wood
53 × 67 cm
Rome, Italy

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Child, flanked by two saints in Lorenzo Lotto's precisely rendered panel. The intimate devotional scene demonstrates early Renaissance mastery of color and spatial composition, establishing Lotto's reputation as a modernist within Venetian tradition.

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