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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Aldobrandini Madonna (Garvagh Madonna)

🖼 Aldobrandini Madonna (Garvagh Madonna), 1510
Oil on wood
38.7 × 32.7 cm
London, United Kingdom

Soft brushwork renders Madonna and Child in intimate tenderness, bathed in warm light against a serene landscape. Raphael's compositional perfection and humanized spirituality revolutionized Renaissance devotional imagery, establishing the ideal of maternal grace that influenced centuries of religious art.

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