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MEMLING, Hans: Virgin with Child

🖼 Virgin with Child, -
Oil on panel
45 × 32 cm
Lisbon, Portugal

Golden light bathes the Virgin and Child in intimate tenderness, rendered through Memling's precise Flemish technique with jewel-like colors and delicate detail. This devotional image exemplifies Northern Renaissance spirituality, blending Netherlandish realism with Byzantine grace to create an accessible yet transcendent sacred narrative.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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