Erisava Staff Jul 31

Alba Madonna by Raphael, 1510

Alba Madonna

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

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This one has had an odd trip: it belonged to the Russian imperial collection at one point, and the Soviet government sold it off in the 1930s to raise cash — that's apparently how it ended up in Washington.

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