"During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas. The artists would often overstate the beauty of their models, rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. The contemporary representation of the Mother of Christ, however, tended to remain unchanged. With the passing of time, Mary gradually lost some of her spiritual characteristics and became more humane, more accessible to human sentiments."

"During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas. The artists would often overstate the beauty of their models, rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. The contemporary representation of the Mother of Christ, however, tended to remain unchanged. With the passing of time, Mary gradually lost some of her spiritual characteristics and became more humane, more accessible to human sentiments."

Jacobello Alberegno

Mariotto Albertinelli

Alessandro AIIori

Fra Bartolomeo

Pompeo Batoni

C. Bosseron Chambers

Sandro Botticelli

Francesco Botticini

Francois Boucher

Agnolo Bronzino

Duccio di Buoninsegna

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo

Caravaggio

Annibale Carracci

Mary Cassalt

Ch"hang ju c"j

Correggio

Piero di Cosimo

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lorenzo di Credi

Salvador Dali

Jacques-Louis David

Nicolas Dipre

Dosso Dossi

Rosso Fiorentino

Lavinia Fontana

Jean Fouquet

Artemisia Gentileschi

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Luca Giordano

Matteo di Giovanni

Toscano Giuseppe e Ahri

Benozzo Gozzoli

El Greco

Jean Hey

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean Jouvenet

Frida Kahlo

Filippo Lippi

Bernardino Luini

Teresa Ly

Andrea Mantegna

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