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VECCHIETTA: Death of the Virgin

🖼 Death of the Virgin, 1480
Painted wood
Lucca, Italy

Soft golden light bathes apostles surrounding the Virgin's deathbed, rendered in precise Renaissance perspective. This altarpiece exemplifies Quattrocento devotion, merging spiritual solemnity with intimate human grief through Vecchietta's masterful composition.

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