To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are dedicating two special exhibitions to this central artist of the Italian Renaissance. Parallel to the exhibition Raphael in Berlin. The Madonnas of the Gemäldegalerie, which opened in December 2019, the Kupferstichkabinett is showing a small but significant group of drawings from its collection produced by the artist himself.

These rarely exhibited sheets convey an impression of Raphael’s remarkable creative range. They are complemented by works by his teacher Perugino and his most important students and contemporaries, Gianfrancesco Penni, Giulio Romano and Perino del Vaga, and by the copperplate maker Marcantonio Raimondi.