THE DAILY PIC (#1500): Today, the Academy of Non-Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (president: me; total membership: me) is declaring Raphael’s Alba Madonna, painted in around 1510 and now in our ...

Raphael's Saint Michael, painted in 1503-1504, will also be displayed Among them are the newly-cleaned Alba Madonna from Washington's National Gallery of Art, the Conestabile Madonna from the ...

Andrew Mellon once paid the Soviet government $1,166,400 for an example of Raphael’s genius, the Alba Madonna (TIME, March 4, 1935). Last week another Raphael Madonna, less fine than Mellon’s ...