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PERUGINO, Pietro: Madonna and Child

🖼 Madonna and Child, -
Oil on wood
45 × 37 cm
Rome, Italy

Tender intimacy unfolds as Madonna cradles the Christ Child in luminous detail, their figures rendered with Perugino's characteristic sweetness and sfumato softness. This devotional image exemplifies Renaissance ideals of divine grace and maternal gentleness, establishing visual conventions that influenced generations of Italian religious art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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