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PERUGINO, Pietro: Madonna, an Angel and Little St John Adoring the Child (Madonna del sacco)

🖼 Madonna, an Angel and Little St John Adoring the Child (Madonna del sacco), 1495-1500
Oil on wood
86 × 83 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft golden light bathes tender figures arranged in intimate devotion around the Christ Child, rendered with Perugino's characteristic linear grace and delicate modeling. This serene composition exemplifies Renaissance harmony, blending Byzantine reverence with humanistic warmth to establish a new devotional ideal.

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E. H. Gombrich
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