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PERUGINO, Pietro: Madonna and Child with Four Saints (Tezi Altarpiece)

🖼 Madonna and Child with Four Saints (Tezi Altarpiece), 1500
Oil on wood
182 × 158 cm
Perugia, Italy

Serene Madonna holds the Christ Child center, flanked by four saints in gold-leaf splendor and Renaissance symmetry. Perugino's ethereal figures and harmonious composition exemplify Early Renaissance devotional ideals, establishing the spiritual blueprint for Italian altarpieces throughout the sixteenth century.

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E. H. Gombrich
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