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RUBENS, Peter Paul: Virgin and Child

🖼 Virgin and Child, 1624-25
Oil on canvas
151 × 108 cm
Berlin, Germany

Soft brushwork renders the Virgin's tender embrace of the Christ Child in warm, glowing tones. Rubens captures intimate maternal devotion through fluid technique, establishing the Baroque ideal of emotional connection within religious narrative.

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E. H. Gombrich
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