The elegant young woman in the blue cloak gazes pensively at the child cradled in her left arm. Her young son, perhaps two years old and wearing a lavender cloak over a red tunic, looks back at her and reaches up to move the veil from her face. The child, like the viewer, admires the flush on his mother’s cheek, her lovely almond-shaped eyes, her beautifully modeled nos (...)
The Last Word
What child is this?
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