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RAFFAELLO Sanzio: Virgin and Child with St John (recto)

🖼 Virgin and Child with St John (recto), -
Pen and brown ink on white paper
230 × 163 cm
Oxford, United Kingdom

Tender intimacy fills this composition of Madonna cradling Christ while young St John gestures in reverence, rendered in delicate chalk. Raphael's harmonious arrangement and gentle modeling exemplify High Renaissance ideals of grace and maternal devotion that defined Renaissance sacred art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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