With two large scale exhibitions in Europe, one in Teylers Museum Haarlem and one in the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt, together with the extraordinary December sale at Sotheby’s London, where a drawing by the Renaissance master was sold for a recordbreaking amount, winter 2012- 2013 will probably be remembered as the winter of Raphael, the Cinquecento master from Urbino.
The exhibition on Raphaels drawings in the Staedel Museum showed 48 sheets from various collections like the Chatsworth, the Ashmolean Museum, The Uffizi and the Albertina Museum in Vienna, but of course foremost the Staedels own collection of drawings by the young master. The exhibition was based on four themes: Raphaels ‘Madonna’ drawings, his studies for abstract ideas like the ones depicted in the Stanze della Segnatura, his drawings for his historical subjects and his designs for the Chigi chapel in the Santa Maria della Pace in Rome.
Colloquium
The Staedel Museum organised a colloquium on Raphael as a Draughtsman
Johann David Passavant, selfportrait 1818, Staedel Museum Frankfurt am Main
Raphael’s study of a warrior on horseback, 1511-1512, collection Staedel Museum Frankfurt an Main