Selva+Art

= **//__Madonna Benois: __//** =

//Raphael transforms this familiar subject into something entirely new.//
=== //The mother and son are no longer posed stiffly and formally as in paintings by earlier artists, but now display all the tender emotions one might expect between a young mother and her child. // === === //Raphael painted the panel shortly before leaving Florence for Rome. When it was in the Camuccini Collection in Italy it was celebrated, but for more than a century it was thought to be only a copy.// ===