The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna), ca. 1509-11. Raphael. Oil on canvas, transferred from wood. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Raphael: Sublime Poetry is the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483–1520) in the United States, bringing together more than 200 of the artist’s greatest masterpieces and rarely seen treasures to illuminate the brilliance of Raphael’s extraordinary creativity. Follow the full breadth of his life and career, from his origins in Urbino to his rise in Florence, where he began to emerge as a peer of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to his final, prolific decade at the papal court in Rome.