HAPPY HANUKKAH AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Raphael’s spherical method of design developed in The Alba Madonna is epistemologically unique and revolutionary in the sense that the intention of the design is to emphasize simultaneously the embrace of the child and the mother as being all-inclusive of humanity’s destiny, but only made feasible through participating in the Passion of the cross as an expression which unites two opposite emotions: one of attractive attachment and tenderness and the other of self-sacrificial detachment. The two emotions are characteristics of the creative process, which requires that the two be unified into a single and unique experience.
