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TURA, Cosmè: The Madonna of the Zodiac

🖼 The Madonna of the Zodiac, 1459-63
Tempera on panel (without frame)
61 × 41 cm
Venice, Italy

Gilded celestial symbols frame the Madonna and Child in intricate tempera, blending sacred and astronomical imagery. Tura synthesized Renaissance humanism with medieval mysticism, establishing the zodiac as divine order—a radical visual theology that influenced Venetian art.

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