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MASTER of Flémalle: Virgin and Child in an Interior

🖼 Virgin and Child in an Interior, c. 1435
Oil on oak
23 × 15 cm
London, United Kingdom

Intimate domestic space flooded with soft northern light reveals Mary nursing the Christ Child before a fireplace, rendered in meticulous oil detail. This revolutionary composition locates the sacred within everyday bourgeois life, establishing the Flemish devotional interior as a transformative artistic model for Renaissance Europe.

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