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MEMLING, Hans: Virgin Enthroned with Child and Angel

🖼 Virgin Enthroned with Child and Angel, c. 1480
Oil on wood
66 × 46.5 cm
Berlin, Germany

Gilded throne and jeweled crown frame the Virgin and Child in luminous detail, with an attendant angel rendered in soft Flemish precision. Memling's intimate devotional image epitomizes 15th-century Netherlandish wealth and piety, blending spiritual reverence with courtly elegance.

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