For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Raphael: Sublime Poetry, Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship Opens, Costume Art, View Finding: Selections from The Walther Collection, and The Magical City: George Morrison's New York.
For a full list of education program funders, please visit metmuseum.org/educationfundingsupport.
Images: 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 | Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483–1520). Angel in Bust-Length (Fragment from the Baronci Altarpiece) (detail), ca. 1500–1501. Oil with gold highlights on canvas (transferred from wood), 12 3/16 × 10 7/16 in. (31 × 26.5 cm). Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo e Fondazione Brescia Musei, Brescia (149) | Photo by Danté Crichlow/BFA.com/ © BFA.com | Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi), Portrait of a Young Boy (Presumed to be a Self-Portrait) (detail), ca. 1500. Grayish black chalk, highlighted with white (now lost), on laid paper. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Presented by a Body of Subscribers in 1846 (WA1846.158) | Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi), Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn (detail), ca. 1505–1506. Oil on canvas (transferred from wood). Galleria Borghese, Rome (371) | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520). Lucretia (detail), 1508–10. Pen and brown ink over black chalk, partially incised with a stylus (recto); rubbed with black chalk for transfer (verso), 15-5/8 x 11-1/2 in. (39.7 x 29.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997 (1997.153) | Aquamanile in the Form of Phyllis and Aristotle, Netherlandish, late 14th or early 15th century. Copper alloy, 12 ¾ x 7 x 15½ in. (32.5 x 17.9 x 39.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.1416) | Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862‒1946). Self-Portrait (detail), 1912. Oil on canvas, 17 1/8 × 16 1/2 in. (43.5 × 42 cm). Finnish National Gallery Collection, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (A-2016-51). Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis | Possibly by Wenzel Roriczer (German, born Bohemia, died 1419). Design for the Entrance Portal of Regensburg Cathedral (detail), ca. 1390–1410. Pen and black ink, over blind ruling with stylus, guided by compass and straightedge, on parchment, Sheet: 53 3/16 × 22 3/8 in. (135.1 × 56.9 cm). Kupferstichkabinett, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien (HZ-16871r) | Collage: "Delphos" gown, Fortuny (Italian), Adèle Henriette Elisabeth Nigrin Fortuny and Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, 1920s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Frances J. Kiernan, 2005 (2005.328); Terracotta statuette of Nike, the personification of victory, late 5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.286.23). Artwork by Julie Wolfe. | Luo Yongjin (Chinese, born 1960), Oriental Plaza, Beijing (detail), 1998–2002. Inkjet print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised gift of The Walther Family Foundation © Luo Yongjin | The Antagonist, 1956. Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 50 1/16 in. (86.7 x 127.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Mrs. Helen Meredith Norcross. © George Morrison Estate. Photo © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY. |
