Met opens Raphael show
The Met in New York launched 'Raphael: Sublime Poetry,' billed as the first full‑scale Raphael exhibition in the U.S.—a major museum event for Renaissance painting that’s now on view. The opening is being framed as a must‑see for anyone tracking big museum moments this spring. (x.com)
Opened March 29 and running through June 28, 2026 at The Met Fifth Avenue, the exhibition is installed in the museum’s Gallery 899. (metmuseum.org) (businessmirror.com.ph) The Met’s press release says the show brings together more than 200 works and specifies that it includes over 170 of Raphael’s drawings. (metmuseum.org) Independent reporting by The Art Newspaper tallies the exhibition at 237 works in total, breaking that down as 33 paintings and 142 drawings. (theartnewspaper.com) The exhibition was organized by Carmen C. Bambach, the Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Met. (metmuseum.org) Bambach has been assembling the show since about 2018 and has described the project as a multi‑year, logistically complex effort to reunite works and request high‑value loans. (smithsonianmag.com) (theartnewspaper.com) Highlights on loan include Raphael’s Alba Madonna from the National Gallery of Art and the Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione from the Louvre, with preparatory drawings and tapestries arriving from major European collections. (metmuseum.org) (theartnewspaper.com) The Met will be the sole venue for the presentation — the show is not scheduled to travel — and entry to the exhibition is included with museum admission; the presentation is sponsored by Morgan Stanley with major support from Kenneth C. Griffin and others. (smithsonianmag.com) (metmuseum.org)
