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QUERCIA, Jacopo della: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, c. 1420
Polychrome wood
Siena, Italy

Soft marble relief captures the Virgin cradling Christ with tender intimacy, their forms rendered in delicate, flowing lines. Quercia's Gothic-Renaissance bridge established a new emotional immediacy in sacred imagery, influencing Sienese devotional art for generations.

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