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SIGNORELLI, Luca: The Birth of the Virgin

🖼 The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1490
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24 × 43 cm

Warm light floods an interior chamber where attendants tend the newborn Virgin, rendered in precise linear perspective. Signorelli's narrative clarity and volumetric figures established Renaissance ideals of spatial harmony and dignified religious imagery.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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