| Madonna del Granduca, one of the loveliest of raphael's Madonnas, is among the treasures of th Pitto Palace in Florence Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), greatest of Italian painters of the Roman Schoo, was born at Urbino, 1483; died 1520. The picture belongs to his Florentine period, and was formerly in the grand ducal apartments, hence its name. |
