Met opens huge Raphael show
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens ‘Raphael: Sublime Poetry’ on March 29 with over 200 works — its first major US Raphael exhibition and a once‑in‑a‑season loan round. (theartwolf.com) — curator Carmen C. Bambach has called the loans extraordinarily difficult to secure, framing this as a landmark cultural moment through June 28. (timeout.com)
The Met is showing more than 170 of Raphael’s drawings alongside paintings, tapestries and decorative arts assembled from public and private collections. (metmuseum.org)) Key reunions include the National Gallery of Art’s Alba Madonna hung with preparatory studies from the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, and the Louvre’s Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione on loan to New York. (metmuseum.org)) Other major lenders named by the museum include the Galleria Borghese and Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, the British Museum and National Gallery (London), the Uffizi, the Prado, the Vatican Museums, the Albertina and several Central and Eastern European collections. (theartnewspaper.com)) Carmen C. Bambach, Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator in the Met’s Department of Drawings and Prints, has led the project after years of preparation and scholarship. (metmuseum.org)) Bambach’s previous Met blockbuster, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer (2017–18), drew more than 700,000 visitors, underscoring the scale the Met expects for this loan-based exhibition. (amacad.org)) The Met identifies Morgan Stanley as the presenting sponsor, lists Kenneth C. Griffin and Jessie and Charles Price among major funders, and notes the exhibition is supported by a federal indemnity. (metmuseum.org)) A fully illustrated catalogue by Carmen C. Bambach will accompany the show and is being published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press as a 428‑page volume. (theartnewspaper.com))
