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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Diotalevi Madonna

🖼 Diotalevi Madonna, c. 1503
Oil on wood
69 × 50 cm
Berlin, Germany

Soft brushwork renders the Virgin in gentle profile, her delicate features framed by luminous fabric. Raphael's early masterpiece demonstrates his revolutionary approach to maternal tenderness and spiritual intimacy, establishing conventions that dominated Renaissance portraiture for generations.

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E. H. Gombrich
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