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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna and Child (The Tempi Madonna)

🖼 Madonna and Child (The Tempi Madonna), 1508
Oil on wood
75 × 51 cm
Munich, Germany

Tender intimacy unfolds as Madonna gazes downward while Christ Child reaches toward her face in soft oil brushwork. Raphael's composition epitomizes High Renaissance ideals of grace and divine humanity, influencing Madonna imagery for centuries.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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