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MASOLINO da Panicale: Madonna of Humility

🖼 Madonna of Humility, c. 1415
Tempera on wood, gold base
113 × 63 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft gold leaf frames the Virgin seated humbly on the ground, cradling the Christ Child in tender intimacy. This revolutionary composition rejected formal throne imagery, establishing the Madonna of Humility as a radical new devotional type emphasizing maternal compassion over hierarchical distance.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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