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PUGET, Pierre: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1682
Marble, height 140 cm
Genoa, Italy

Tender maternal embrace rendered in soft marble, the Virgin cradles her Child in intimate devotion. Puget's dynamic Baroque composition reveals French sculptural mastery through flowing drapery and emotional warmth, establishing the artist's influence on 17th-century religious art across Europe.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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