The Maximum Speed of Raphael_s Madonna by Salvador Dali in the year 1954. It strikes me that anyone who sort of wants it all in art is always well-served to enter the house of Dalí, where virtually any style awaits you. In “Maximum Speed,” Dalí has taken a classic portrait of the Madonna, inspired by the Italian Renaissance master, Raphael – whom Dalí deeply admired – and reimagined her gracious figure through the lens of the new atomic age.