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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: God the Father and the Virgin Mary (fragments of the Baronci Altarpiece)

🖼 God the Father and the Virgin Mary (fragments of the Baronci Altarpiece), 1500-01
Oil on wood (God) (Virgin)
112 × 75 cm
Naples, Italy

Ethereal figures emerge from golden light—God the Father and Virgin Mary rendered with Raphael's characteristic grace and soft modeling. These altarpiece fragments exemplify High Renaissance ideals of divine beauty and compositional harmony that profoundly influenced European religious art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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