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PERUGINO, Pietro: Madonna with Child

🖼 Madonna with Child, 1501
Oil on wood
70 × 51 cm
Washington, United States

Soft golden light bathes the Madonna and Child in tender intimacy, their figures rendered with delicate Renaissance restraint and graceful spatial geometry. Perugino's composition exemplifies early 16th-century Umbrian ideals, influencing generations through its harmonious balance and devotional serenity.

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E. H. Gombrich
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