Rome after Raphael: Drawings from the Morgan is at The Morgan Library & Museum through May 9.

Featuring nearly seventy works almost exclusively drawn from The Morgan Library & Museum’s outstanding holdings of Italian drawings, Rome after Raphael: Drawings from the Morgan illuminates the artistic production in Rome during the Renaissance. The exhibition takes Raphael’s last years as its starting point and ends with the dawn of the Baroque as seen in the art of the Carracci. It includes striking examples by great masters of the period, including Raphael and Michelangelo, Perino del Vaga, Giulio Romano, Daniele da Volterra, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Francesco Salviati, the Carracci, Federico Barocci, Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro, Giorgio Vasari, Prospero Fontana, Giuseppe Cesari, called il Cavaliere d’Arpino, Enea Vico, Pirro Ligorio, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Baldassare Peruzzi, Girolamo Muziano, Cesare Nebbia, Giovanni Guerra, Raffaellino da Reggio, and Lorenzo Sabatini. In addition, the exhibition will feature Giulio Clovio’s Farnese hours, the Mellon Codex which contains important architectural drawings, including an image depicting Raphael’s design for St. Peter’s, and a magnificent binding of the period. Scholars and connoisseurs have long recognized the quality and importance of the Morgan’s distinguished collection of Italian drawings and several sheets have been included in prominent international exhibitions. There has, however, never before been an exhibition in New York focusing exclusively on Renaissance and Mannerist drawings from Rome, a seminal period in Italian art history, and one superbly represented by the Morgan’s holdings.