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MANTEGNA, Andrea: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1480-85
Engraving
262 × 233 cm
New York, United States

Tender intimacy emerges through precise linear perspective and cool tones as Virgin and Child occupy a marble architectural space. Mantegna's revolutionary foreshortening and classical setting established the Renaissance ideal of divine figures grounded in rational, humanistic space.

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E. H. Gombrich
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