{"id":94935,"date":"2025-08-26T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/94935\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:12:08","slug":"the-uss-largest-raphael-exhibition-is-opening-at-the-met-next-year-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/94935\/","title":{"rendered":"The US\u2019s largest Raphael exhibition is opening at the Met next year – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open the Americas\u2019 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 that are from Italy and Spain and a curator in the Met\u2019s department of prints and drawings. She has been working on this logistically complex show since 2018, when her previous blockbuster, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer<\/a>, closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seven-year journey of putting together this exhibition has been an extraordinary chance to reframe my understanding of this monumental artist,\u201d Bambach said in a statement. \u201cIt is a thrilling opportunity to engage with his unique artistic personality through the visual power, intellectual depth and tenderness of his imagery.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition, which will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, will be structured broadly chronologically, tracing Raphael\u2019s career from his early years in Urbino and his prolific Florentine period (around 1504-08) to his final decade as an artist in Rome\u2019s papal court. Special attention will be paid to recent scientific analysis of Raphael\u2019s work and his depictions of women. <\/p>\n

The enormous breadth of loans secured by the Met will allow Bambach to reunite finished paintings with preparatory drawings\u2014for example The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) (around 1509-11) from the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, will hang alongside studies for it from the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille.<\/p>\n

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Raphael, The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna), around 1509-11 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Andrew W. Mellon Collection. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington<\/p>\n

Also making the journey to Manhattan will be the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1514-16) from the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia with Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine, and Mary Magdalene (around 1515-16) from the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna and Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn (1505-06) from the Galleria Borghese. Other lenders to the Met\u2019s show include the British Museum and National Gallery in London, the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence, the Museo del Prado and Patrimonio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a in Madrid, the Albertina in Vienna, the St\u00e4del Museum in Frankfurt, the Sz\u00e9pmu\u0308v\u00e9szeti M\u00fazeum in Budapest, the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin and, of course, the Vatican Museums.<\/p>\n

The Met\u2019s own collection includes three works by Raphael, most famously the altarpiece he created for the Sant\u2019Antonio convent in Perugia: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints<\/a> (around 1504). The museum also owns a panel that was part of that altarpiece\u2019s base, The Agony in the Garden<\/a> (1504), and a later drawing of Lucretia<\/a> (around 1508-10).<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Met confirms that the exhibition will not travel. The last Raphael exhibition of a similar scope in the US was the NGA\u2019s Raphael and America<\/a> back in 1983, which was aligned with the 500th anniversary of the artist\u2019s birth and included more than 100 objects. A smaller exhibition focused on drawings by Raphael, his teachers and pupils\u2014Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle<\/a>\u2014travelled to the NGA, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the J. Paul Getty Museum from 2000 to 2001.<\/p>\n

Fans of Renaissance masters may recall that the Met\u2019s 2018 Michelangelo exhibition was visited<\/a> by the artist\u2019s namesake Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle in its closing days. Only time will tell whether the fictional turtle\u2019s brother, Raphael, distinguished by his red bandana, pair of three-pointed sai and hot temper, will be lured from the New York City sewers to visit Sublime Poetry next year.<\/p>\n

Raphael: Sublime Poetry, 29 March-28 June 2026, Metropolitan Museum, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open the Americas\u2019 largest ever exhibition devoted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,10993,46986,10345,46987,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-94935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","tag-museums-heritage","tag-raphael","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}