It took eight long years to put together this extraordinary exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring over 200 works – including paintings, drawings and tapestries – most of them by one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen, Raffaello Santi, more commonly known simply as Raphael.
Born in Urbino on Good Friday 1483, Raphael died in Rome on Good Friday 1520. In his biography Raphael: A Passionate Life (Polity Press, London, 2012), Antonio Forcellino writes that he ‘was more than just the painter, the architect, and the stage designer who had created images of disturbing beauty.
