
In fifteenth-century Florence, the image of the Virgin and Child underwent a quiet revolution. From the solemn, hieratic figures of late Gothic piety, the Madonna became an image of tender humanity, no longer distant and majestic, but immediate, emotional, and profoundly relatable. This transformation mirrors a broader shift in Renaissance devotion: the movement of sacred experience from church to home, from the grandeur of the altar to the intimacy of domestic life.









