Exhibition

Raphael and his school: drawing connections

2 Feb 2022 – 15 May 2022

Regular hours

Wednesday
10:00 – 17:30
Thursday
10:00 – 20:30
Friday
10:00 – 20:30
Saturday
10:00 – 17:30
Sunday
10:00 – 17:30
Monday
10:00 – 17:30
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:30

Free admission

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London, United Kingdom

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  • Holborn (500m), Tottenham Court Road (300m), Russell Square (800m), Goodge Street (800m)
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Following the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael (1483–1520) in 2020, experience the Italian Renaissance master's exquisite drawings and trace his influence through the work of his pupils.

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During his relatively short life, Raphael went from provincial obscurity as the son of a court artist in Urbino in central Italy, to establishing himself as the dominant painter, architect and all-round artistic designer at the Papal court in Rome.

Central to Raphael’s success was his brilliance in drawing, which facilitated his rapid analysis and absorption of the work of his contemporaries, most notably Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) and Michelangelo (1475–1564). This dexterity allowed him to explore his ideas and then direct his studio and school to realise them in a wide variety of media. 

The 29 works on display will highlight Raphael’s development as a draughtsman and show how his talented pupils – Perino del Vaga, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni – continued to draw with a similar inventive and free-flowing spirit. 

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