Carmen C. Bambach is Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

“The Met’s Raphael exhibition is a feat. . . . So, too, is the catalog. . . . 400 pages of (mostly) chronological overview of this prince among painters. I came away with a new appreciation for his hometown pride, his hustler attitude, and the life story that underpins his unparalleled depictions of mother and child.”—Lisa Yin Zhang, Hyperallergic“Raphael’s use of female models in Rome is just one manifestation of his interest in women and we should be grateful to Carmen C. Bambach, author of the catalogue and one of the curators of the exhibition, for digging out the scattered references to women in the scholarship on the artist.”—Shiela Barker, Apollo

Carmen C. Bambach is Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

“The Met’s Raphael exhibition is a feat. . . . So, too, is the catalog. . . . 400 pages of (mostly) chronological overview of this prince among painters. I came away with a new appreciation for his hometown pride, his hustler attitude, and the life story that underpins his unparalleled depictions of mother and child.”—Lisa Yin Zhang, Hyperallergic“Raphael’s use of female models in Rome is just one manifestation of his interest in women and we should be grateful to Carmen C. Bambach, author of the catalogue and one of the curators of the exhibition, for digging out the scattered references to women in the scholarship on the artist.”—Shiela Barker, Apollo

Carmen C. Bambach is Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

“The Met’s Raphael exhibition is a feat. . . . So, too, is the catalog. . . . 400 pages of (mostly) chronological overview of this prince among painters. I came away with a new appreciation for his hometown pride, his hustler attitude, and the life story that underpins his unparalleled depictions of mother and child.”—Lisa Yin Zhang, Hyperallergic“Raphael’s use of female models in Rome is just one manifestation of his interest in women and we should be grateful to Carmen C. Bambach, author of the catalogue and one of the curators of the exhibition, for digging out the scattered references to women in the scholarship on the artist.”—Shiela Barker, Apollo