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PERUGINO, Pietro: Madonna in Glory with the Child and Saints

🖼 Madonna in Glory with the Child and Saints, 1495-96
Oil on panel
152 × 124 cm
Siena, Italy

Soft light bathes the Virgin and Child enthroned above kneeling saints, rendered in Perugino's delicate linear perspective and graceful figures. This altarpiece exemplifies early Renaissance spirituality, blending Byzantine hierarchy with humanist ideals of divine beauty and earthly devotion.

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E. H. Gombrich
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