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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Madonna with the Fish

🖼 Madonna with the Fish, 1512-14
Oil on canvas transferred from wood
215 × 158 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft light bathes the Virgin and Child in intimate tenderness, while Saint Raphael presents a gleaming fish—a symbol of healing and divine protection rendered with luminous precision. This devotional masterpiece exemplifies High Renaissance harmony, blending spiritual reverence with naturalistic detail that influenced Baroque religious art profoundly.

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