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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna of Belvedere (Madonna del Prato)

🖼 Madonna of Belvedere (Madonna del Prato), 1506
Oil on wood
113 × 88 cm
Vienna, Austria

Soft golden light bathes three figures in a verdant landscape—Madonna and Child centered with young Saint John, rendered in luminous oil with delicate sfumato. This intimate devotional work epitomizes High Renaissance harmony, balancing divine tenderness with naturalistic landscape, establishing Raphael's mastery of compositional grace.

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E. H. Gombrich
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