In recent years, the art of Raphael seems to have fallen out of favor with the public. “While Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo leap out of the past as living men – their lives intense and fascinating, their works disturbingly immediate – Raphael has become remote. The recent fuss over the National Gallery’s bid to buy his Madonna of the Pinks revealed just how distant we are from him. No one could say why he is so special.” Could it be that Raphael’s embrace of a style which attempted to impose order on chaos is so foreign to us, in an age in which chaos is the accepted norm, that we have forgotten how to view it?