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'Although the distant view takes up far less space in the composition than the interior scene, no other element holds the eye for so long. It feels as though if you could only get closer you would see still more. The art historian Erwin Panofsky called the Rolin Madonna, for good reason, “the ne plus ultra in landscape painting.”

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