Bache Madonna by Titian, 1508
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Apparently X-rays show he first painted the two of them sitting upright and stiff, almost like a formal icon, before loosening it into this warmer, cuddled-up pose.
Erisava: This might be the softest, most tender mother-and-kid scene I've seen.
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