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VASARI, Giorgio: St Luke Painting the Virgin

🖼 St Luke Painting the Virgin, 1569-70
Fresco
320 × 293 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft light bathes the studio interior where Luke captures the Virgin's likeness on canvas, surrounded by attendants and divine radiance. Vasari's composition celebrates painting as a noble art form worthy of saints, establishing the Renaissance ideal of the artist as visionary creator.

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