How can Raphael’s Madonnas be reframed?
<p>After visiting <em>Raphael: Sublime Poetry</em> at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Caroline Fowler emerged with a transformed understanding of Raphael. In this conversation, she speaks with curator Carmen Bambach about the exhibition’s poignant reframing of Raphael’s Madonna and Child paintings through the lens of maternal and infant mortality in Renaissance Italy. Together they explore the role of biography in art history, Raphael’s extraordinary drawings, and what becomes visible when we take the female body seriously—not as an object of desire, but as a force that makes life, art, and the world itself.</p>
Host: Caroline Fowler
Guests: Carmen Bambach
Musicians: Diego Mongue
Contributors: Noelle Derksen, Shawnette Smalls
Sound Editor: CJ DeGennaro
Subjects: Raphael
Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
Part of: Iconoclast Art History