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MEMLING, Hans: St Ursula Shrine: Virgin and Child

🖼 St Ursula Shrine: Virgin and Child, 1489
Wood
91.5 × 41.5 cm
Bruges, Belgium

Luminous gold leaf and intricate detail frame the Virgin and Child in tender proximity, rendered with Flemish precision and jewel-like color. This shrine panel exemplifies 15th-century devotional art's spiritual intimacy, combining Byzantine iconography with Northern Renaissance naturalism to inspire veneration.

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E. H. Gombrich
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