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TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista: The Madonna of Carmel and the Souls of the Purgatory

🖼 The Madonna of Carmel and the Souls of the Purgatory, 1730s
Oil on canvas
210 × 650 cm
Milan, Italy

Luminous figures swirl upward in golden light as the Virgin descends toward suffering souls below, rendered in Tiepolo's characteristic Rococo fluidity. This altarpiece exemplifies Counter-Reformation devotion to intercessory prayer, merging heavenly grace with earthly redemption through baroque dynamism.

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