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MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban: Madonna and Child

🖼 Madonna and Child, c. 1670
Oil on canvas
166 × 115 cm
Dresden, Germany

Soft brushwork renders the Virgin's tender gaze downward as the Christ Child reaches upward, bathed in warm golden light. Murillo's intimate devotional scene epitomizes Spanish Baroque sentiment, establishing the prototype for sentimental Madonna imagery that dominated European religious art for centuries.

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E. H. Gombrich
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