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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna of Loreto (Madonna del Velo)

🖼 Madonna of Loreto (Madonna del Velo), 1509-10
Oil on wood
120 × 90 cm
Chantilly, France

Tender brushwork captures Madonna and Christ Child beneath a delicate veil, their faces rendered with intimate spirituality and soft modeling. This devotional image epitomizes High Renaissance ideals of grace and maternal love, becoming an iconic prototype for Counter-Reformation religious art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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