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„Rafael: Sublime Poetry“, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 29 to June 28, 2026, will be the first comprehensive, international loan exhibition in the United States on Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483–1520), considered one of the greatest artists of all time. This landmark exhibition will explore the full breadth of his life and career, from his origins in Urbino to his prolific years in Florence, where he began to emerge as a peer to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to his final decade at the papal court in Rome.
Bringing together more than 200 works, including over 170 of Raphael’s most important drawings, paintings, tapestries, and decorative arts from public and private collections around the world, the exhibition will offer a fresh perspective on this defining figure of the Italian Renaissance, presenting his renowned masterpieces alongside rarely seen treasures to reveal an extraordinarily creative mind.
The exhibition traces Rafael’s artistic development from his beginnings in Urbino to his final years in Rome. It opens with his early training under his father, Giovanni Santi, and his apprenticeship with Pietro Perugino, whose influence shaped his earliest works. It then explores how the young artist established his …
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Image above: Rafael, Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist in a landscape (The Alba Madonna), from 1509–1511, Oil on canvas (transferred from wood) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection (1937.1.24). Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington)
