MONDAY LECTURES


20 April 2026

Recording

Zoom lecture



RAPHAEL: SUBLIME POETRY

A lecture on the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

(29 March – 28 June 2026)

with Chris Boïcos




The male "Mona Lisa" - Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael (1514-15, Paris, Musée du Louvre)
The male "Mona Lisa" - Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael (1514-15, Paris, Musée du Louvre)

This 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 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.



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