Raphael: Sublime Poetry 

 

March 29–June 28, 2026

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

 

Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi), The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) (detail), ca. 1509–11. Oil on canvas (transferred from wood). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.24

 

 

라파엘로(Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1483-1520)가 온다. 메트로폴리탄뮤지엄이 내년 3월 29일부터 6월 28일까지 '라파엘로: 숭고한 시(Raphael: Sublime Poetry)'를 연다.

 

레오나르도 다빈치(1452-1519), 미켈란젤로(1475-1563)와 함께 르네상스 3대 화가로 꼽히는 라파엘로는 '성모 마리아와 아기예수(알바 마돈나)', '아테네 학당' 등 걸작을 남기고 37세로 사망했다.

 

이번 전시는 로마 교황청에서 보낸 최후의 10년에 촛점을 맞추었다. 세계 주요 뮤지엄에서 대여한 회화, 드로잉, 태피스트리 장식미술품 등 200여점을 선보일 예정이다. 전시작품은 루브르, 우피치, 바티칸, 브리티시뮤지엄, 마드리드 프라다, 런던 내셔널갤러리, 워싱턴 DC 내셔널갤러리를 비롯, Accademia Carrara(베르가모), Albertina(비엔나), Ashmolean 뮤지엄(옥스포드), Galleria Borghese(로마), Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini(로마), The Duke of Devonshire and Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement(채스워스), Galleria Nazionale delle Marche(우르비노), Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria(페루자), Kupferstichkabinett(베를린),  Fondazione Brescia Musei(브레시아), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Palais des Beaux-Arts(릴), Patrimonio Nacional de España(마드리드), Pinacoteca Comunale of Città di Castello, Pinacoteca Nazionale(볼로냐), 슈테델 미술관(프랑크푸르트), 세프뮈베세티 미술관(부다페스트) 등지에서 대여해온다. 

 

 

Raphael, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints'(1504) 

 

Raphael, 'The Agony in the Garden' (1504)

 

메트뮤지엄은 라파엘로의 제단화 'Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints'(1504)와 'The Agony in the Garden' (1504)를 소장하고 있으며, 현재 갤러리 609에 전시되어 있다. 라파엘로 특별전의 큐레이터는 2017년 미켈란젤로 특별전 ' Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer'을 기획한 카르멘 밤바흐(Carmen C. Bambach)다. 

 

조르지오 바사리(Giorgio Vasari)는 '예술가들의 열전'(1550)에서 "천국은 때때로 얼마나 관대하고, 친절한가 한 사람에게 무한한 보물과 오랜 세월에 걸쳐 여러 사람들에게 나누어지는 은총과 재능을 모두 가져다 줄 때 말이다"라며, 라파엘로를 '필멸의 신들(mortal gods)'에 비유했다. 

 

 

The Met to Showcase One of Art History’s Greatest Figures, Italian Renaissance Genius Raphael, in First Major International Loan Exhibition in the U.S.

 

(New York, August 26, 2025)—Raphael: Sublime Poetry, on view March 29 to June 28, 2026, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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.

 

“This unprecedented exhibition will offer a groundbreaking look at the brilliance and legacy of Raphael, a true titan of the Italian Renaissance,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. “Visitors will have an exceptionally rare opportunity to experience the breathtaking range of his creative genius through some of the artist’s most iconic and seldom loaned works from around the globe—many never before shown together.”

 

Among the highlights will be The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) from the National Gallery of Art, one of the most emblematic examples of Raphael’s mastery over High Renaissance ideals of harmony and classical beauty, which will be united with his preparatory drawings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Lille, and Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione, now in the Louvre, widely regarded as one of the greatest portraits of the High Renaissance.

 

Lenders include the Accademia Carrara (Bergamo), Albertina (Vienna), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), British Museum (London), Galleria Borghese (Rome), Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini (Rome), The Duke of Devonshire and Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement (Chatsworth), Galleria Nazionale delle Marche (Urbino), Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria (Perugia), Kupferstichkabinett (Berlin), Louvre (Paris), Fondazione Brescia Musei (Brescia), National Gallery (London), National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Lille), Patrimonio Nacional de España (Madrid), Pinacoteca Comunale of Città di Castello, Pinacoteca Nazionale (Bologna), Prado (Madrid), Städel Museum (Frankfurt), Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Budapest), Gallerie degli Uffizi (Florence), and the Vatican Museums, among others.

 

“The seven-year journey of putting together this exhibition has been an extraordinary chance to reframe my understanding of this monumental artist,” said Carmen Bambach, the Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator in The Met’s Department of Drawings and Prints. “It is a thrilling opportunity to engage with his unique artistic personality through the visual power, intellectual depth, and tenderness of his imagery.

 

Though he lived a mere 37 years, Raphael achieved such profound success as a painter, designer, and architect that he was regarded as the pinnacle of artistic perfection for centuries after his death. 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. Matching ambition with lyricism, he created works with both intellectual heft and emotional depth, a necessary skill in the complex political landscape of Renaissance courts.

 

The exhibition will unfold roughly chronologically, tracing Raphael’s life and career, with thematic sections focused on the development of his ideas and imagery. Recent scientific discoveries will also be incorporated. By featuring drawings in relationship to paintings and works in other media, the presentation will demonstrate Raphael’s prodigious versatility and creative process. The figural compositions in his paintings, drawings, tapestry designs, and prints reveal him to be an unparalleled storyteller, and this exhibition will pay particular attention to his portrayal of women—from his pioneering use of nude female models to his sensitive portrayals of the Madonna and Child.