Overview
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is now showing Raphael: Sublime Poetry through June 28, 2026, the first comprehensive U.S. survey of the artist.
- The show gathers more than 170 works from about 60 collections worldwide, including major paintings, preparatory drawings, tapestries, and fresco fragments.
- Many loans rarely leave their home museums, and Met director Max Hollein calls the presentation a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see them together.
- Curator Carmen C. Bambach spent years securing loans and includes intimate materials such as works by Raphael’s father, an unfinished poem, and a family account book to reveal his working method.
- Reviewers note a nave-like layout that guides visitors through Raphael’s career, signaling a blockbuster built to illuminate his process as much as his masterpieces.