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MENGS, Anton Raphael: The Holy Family

🖼 The Holy Family, 1769
Oil on canvas
112 × 91 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Soft, golden light bathes the Virgin and Child in tender intimacy, while Joseph observes from shadow with classical restraint and balanced composition. Mengs synthesizes Baroque warmth with Neoclassical order, establishing the template for 18th-century religious painting across Europe.

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