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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna and Child (The Large Cowper Madonna)

🖼 Madonna and Child (The Large Cowper Madonna), 1508
Oil on wood
81 × 57 cm
Washington, United States

Soft brushwork renders Mary and Christ child in tender intimacy, their figures bathed in warm light against a serene landscape. Raphael's balanced composition and idealized forms epitomize High Renaissance harmony, establishing the Madonna type that influenced centuries of Christian art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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