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PERUGINO, Pietro: Virgin and Child with Saints

🖼 Virgin and Child with Saints, c. 1515
Oil on canvas
79 × 56 cm
Perugia, Italy

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Child, framed by four saints in balanced symmetry across a serene landscape. Perugino's harmonious composition epitomizes Early Renaissance ideals of divine order, influencing Raphael and establishing the Umbrian school's spiritual aesthetic.

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