The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present Americas' largest Raphael exhibition, Raphael: Sublime Poetry, from 29 March to 28 June, featuring more than 200 paintings, drawings, decorative objects and tapestries. Carmen Bambach curated the show and began assembling loans in 2018, aiming to reframe understanding of Raphael through visual power, intellectual depth and tenderness. The presentation follows Raphael's career chronologically from Urbino through his prolific Florentine period to his Roman papal decade. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Scientific analysis and Raphael's depictions of women receive special attention. Major loans will reunite finished paintings with preparatory drawings, including the Alba Madonna.
Next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open the Americas' largest ever exhibition devoted to the Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520), bringing together more than 200 paintings, drawings, decorative art objects and tapestries. Raphael: Sublime Poetry (29 March-28 June) is being curated by Carmen Bambach, a specialist in Renaissance drawings from Italy and Spain and a curator in the Met's department of prints and drawings.
"The seven-year journey of putting together this exhibition has been an extraordinary chance to reframe my understanding of this monumental artist," Bambach said in a statement. "It is a thrilling opportunity to engage with his unique artistic personality through the visual power, intellectual depth and tenderness of his imagery." The exhibition, which will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, will be structured broadly chronologically-tracing Raphael's career from his early years in Urbino
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