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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna della Tenda

🖼 Madonna della Tenda, 1514
Oil on wood
65.8 × 51.2 cm
Munich, Germany

Soft light bathes Madonna and Child beneath a rich crimson curtain, their tender embrace rendered in luminous oil paint with perfect proportions. Raphael's masterpiece epitomizes High Renaissance ideals—serene maternal devotion combined with mathematical harmony that influenced religious art for centuries.

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E. H. Gombrich
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