Big Raphael Show at the MET in 2026
September 15 2025
Picture: MET
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
I'm a little slow to news that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have announced a big Raphael show for 2026.
According to the museum's website:
Raphael: Sublime Poetry is the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States, bringing together more than 200 of the artist’s greatest masterpieces and rarely seen treasures to illuminate the brilliance of Raphael’s extraordinary creativity. The son of a painter and poet, Raphael engaged with the foremost writers and thinkers of his age in Rome, displaying a poetic sensibility that captivated his peers and generations that followed. Follow the full breadth of his life and career, from his origins in Urbino to his rise in Florence, where he began to emerge as a peer of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to his final, prolific decade at the papal court in Rome.
The exhibition will run from 29th March until 28th June 2026.
