Raphael’s innovations and influence (opens in new tab)

Contributed by Margarett McCann / The sophisticated visual storytelling of Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) is emphasized in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Raphael: Sublime Poetry. Figure and architectural drawings, collaborations in printmaking, tapestry, and a quarter of his painting oeuvre are accompanied by precedents he imitated and peers whose progress he surpassed. Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn shows Raphael’s seamless meld of real and ideal, solid and delicate, old and new. G...