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The National Gallery of Art holds the Alba Madonna as a public Washington panel

The Alba Madonna entered the National Gallery of Art’s public collection (Mellon gift lineage, gallery opened 1941; the object’s NGA life is the dated public-access instrument used here). In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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The Alba Madonna entered the National Gallery of Art’s public collection (Mellon gift lineage, gallery opened 1941; the object’s NGA life is the dated public-access instrument used here). Raphael did not ship it to Constitution Avenue.

Context

A roundel in a free-entry national gallery is knowledge access in one country, after earlier aristocratic holding.

Raphael is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A public national-gallery Madonna is an access path. High confidence on the NGA holding.

High confidence on the NGA holding.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Raphael

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Painter and papal architect as documented. Assistants, popes, and later restorers share labour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.National Gallery of Art — Raphael artist pageNational Gallery of Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.National Gallery of Art — Alba MadonnaNational Gallery of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorRaphael
  2. contributed toFactThe National Gallery of Art holds the Alba Madonna as a public Washington panel
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The National Gallery of Art holds the Alba Madonna as a public Washington panel. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ra-nga-alba-madonna

https://factrail.ai/facts/ra-nga-alba-madonna

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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