The Alba Madonna by Raphael was created c. 1510. The painting is in National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. The size of the work overall 94,5 cm and is made of oil on panel transferred to canvas.
The Alba Madonna shows the Roman style Raphael adapted, in the painting’s delicacy of color and mood, with figures draped in rose pink, pale blue, and green, set in an idealized, classical landscape. The Madonna is dressed in an antique costume of turban, sandals, and flowing robes. The serene, bucolic atmosphere of Raphael’s tondo belies its emotional meaning. The Christ Child’s gesture of accepting the cross from the Baptist is the focus of attention of all three figures, as if they have foreknowledge of Christ’s sacrifice for mankind… (read more in National Gallery of Art Washington D.C.)
About the Artist: Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region. Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500. Raphael led a “nomadic” life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a “Florentine period” of about 1504–1508, he was possibly never a continuous resident there… read more
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