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PINTURICCHIO: Adoration of the Christ Child

🖼 Adoration of the Christ Child, c. 1490
Wood
Rome, Italy

Soft golden light bathes the Virgin and Child surrounded by kneeling figures in a Renaissance stable, rendered with delicate detail and harmonious composition. Pinturicchio's work epitomizes late 15th-century Umbrian painting, blending intimate devotion with architectural grandeur that influenced Rome's Renaissance visual culture.

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