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PINTURICCHIO: The Virgin and Child

🖼 The Virgin and Child, 1475-80
Panel
57.5 × 40 cm
London, United Kingdom

Tender devotion radiates from the Virgin's gentle gaze as she cradles the Christ Child, rendered in luminous tempera with gold leaf accents. This intimate Madonna exemplifies Italian Renaissance spirituality, blending Byzantine tradition with emerging humanistic warmth that defined Pinturicchio's sought-after devotional works.

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E. H. Gombrich
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