Vintage 1959 Raphael "The Alba Madonna" Religious Portrait Art Print

A 1959 print of Raphael's The Alba Madonna (1510) from a rare mid century Metropolitan Seminars in Art volume.

9.5” x 12.5” unframed

The Alba Madonna is a tondo oil on wood transferred to canvas painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, created c. 1511, depicting Mary, Jesus, and John the Baptist in a typical Italian countryside.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520),generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.