Raphael Sublime Poetry The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition Highlights Tour

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Welcome back to the Museum Reviews channel! Today, we have a special episode from my recent trip to NYC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While there, I had the privilege to see the amazing featured exhibition: “Raphael Sublime Poetry.”

The exhibition features 237 total objects, and 175 works by Raphael. More specifically, the exhibition includes 142 drawings by Raphael, and 33 paintings. Also included are a series of works by artists in relation to Raphael including Perugino, da Vinci, and many others!

This video is a comprehensive “tour” of the exhibition and includes video and photos that I took while I was there.

I tried to be extremely thorough in formatting the video as I know many of my viewers are from the SoCal region. I wanted to be able to display the exhibition just how it is for you all to see!

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00:00 Exhibition Introduction
00:48 Chapter 1: Raphael of Urbino
01:59 Chapter 2: Becoming an Artist
03:41 Chapter 3: Finding Patrons
07:55 Chapter 4: Responding to Leonardo and Michelangelo
09:30 Chapter 5: Composing Monumental Paintings
11:08 Chapter 6: Mother and Child
12:45 Chapter 7: Painting the Madonna for Private Patrons
18:02 Chapter 8: Portraiture and the Artifice of Self-Presentation
20:49 Chapter 9: Drawings for the Vatican Palace
26:36 Chapter 10: Raphael’s Vatican Frescoes
29:10 Chapter 11: Toward a Grand Roman Manner
32:04 Chapter 12: The Sistine Tapestries
36:14 Chapter 13: The Transfiguration
37:22 Chapter 14: Beyond the Vatican
39:07 Chapter 15: The Eternal City