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LOTTO, Lorenzo: Madonna of the Rosary

🖼 Madonna of the Rosary, c. 1539
Oil on canvas
384 × 264 cm
Cingoli, France

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Child, surrounded by Dominican saints in intricate Renaissance composition. Lotto's intimate devotional work revolutionized the rosary altarpiece format, merging spiritual fervor with humanized figures that invite personal prayer rather than distant reverence.

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E. H. Gombrich
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