Review | Raphael, a master of serenity, is the artist we need right now

NEW YORK — During a recent visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, I had almost the same experience that happens to me in Washington’s National Gallery of Art. Upon encountering Raphael’s “Madonna of the Meadow,” all of the museum fatigue evaporated — and with it that peculiar brain fog of an overfull yet completely scattered mind. At the National Gallery, it’s the same painter’s Alba Madonna that inevitably arrests and refreshes.