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TURA, Cosmè: Madonna with the Child Enthroned (panel from the Roverella Polyptych)

🖼 Madonna with the Child Enthroned (panel from the Roverella Polyptych), 1474
Oil on wood
239 × 102 cm
London, United Kingdom

Golden light illuminates the enthroned Madonna and Child, rendered with jeweled precision and intricate gold leaf detailing in tempera. This panel from the Roverella Polyptych epitomizes Ferrarese Renaissance splendor, blending Byzantine reverence with emerging humanistic warmth through Cosmè Tura's distinctive linear elegance.

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