Alba Madonna [SEP] creator
Alba Madonna
The Alba Madonna is a c.1510 tondo (circular) painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, depicting Mary, Jesus, and John the Baptist in a typical Italian countryside. 
After a century and a half in Italy, it was in the collection of the Dukes of Alba in Spain until 1836, when it was sold to Nicholas I of Russia, and it became one of the highlights of the Imperial Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Clandestinely sold to Andrew W. Mellon by the government of the Soviet
- The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist (La belle jardinière), painted in 1507, is at the Louvre, Paris.
- Madonna with the Blue Diadem
- Alba Madonna, painted in 1511 during his mature period, is in National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Madonna della seggiola
- Madonna dell'Impannata
- Madonna della tenda
- Madonna of the Rose
Provenance.
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