Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Christ Blessing the Children, painted around 1486 for the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, exemplifies the serene balance and human warmth that characterize the mature Florentine Renaissance. The fresco unfolds within a carefully structured architectural setting, where Christ sits at the compositional center, slightly elevated and surrounded by mothers, children, and onlookers. The arrangement is calm and symmetrical, with figures disposed rhythmically on either side, creating a harmonious equilibrium that reflects the Renaissance ideal of rational order and proportion. The architectural backdrop, rendered in firm linear perspective, deepens the sense of space and stability, while subtly recalling Brunelleschi’s nearby designs, a fitting echo within a building conceived by that very architect.