Answer:
Raphael's Alba Madonna demonstrated his ability to present the Madonna in a beautiful and heroic way.
Step-by-step explanation:
Alba Madonna is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael Sanzio, dating from 1511. It is an oil painting on panel, which was transferred to canvas, round in shape with a diameter of 98 centimeters. It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
It represents the Virgin, Jesus and John the Baptist, in a typically Italian country landscape. Saint John the Baptist holds a cross to Jesus, which the child is holding. The three figures stare at the cross. The three are grouped in the left part of the circular design, but the stretched arm of the Virgin and the floating material of its layer balance the image. Reminiscences of Michelangelo's Doni Tondo can be seen in the Herculean conception of the figure of the Virgin, and in some hardness in the treatment of cloths. However, faces and, above all, children's figures, show the typical sweetness of Raphael's art.