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Children in Renaissance Art: From Sacred Infants to Playful Putti

A tender Christ Child presses his cheek against his mother's face—a gesture repeated across centuries and cultures—while bronze boys stand in defiant contrapposto and cherubs peek from gilded altarpieces. This tour traces how Renaissance artists transformed the representation of childhood, from the solemn Christ Child of medieval tradition to the chubby, mischievous putti that would define the era's visual language.

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