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

🖼 Madonna and Child (The Small Cowper Madonna), 1504-05
Oil on wood
58 × 43 cm
Washington, United States

Soft brushwork renders the Virgin's tender gaze as she cradles the Christ Child against a luminous landscape. Raphael's perfectly balanced composition and idealized figures epitomize High Renaissance harmony, establishing the Madonna-and-Child formula that dominated European art for centuries.

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E. H. Gombrich
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