RAPHAEL’S CIRCLE TO OPEN AT LIBRARY

NEW YORK — The first major loan exhibition in America of the drawings of Raphael and his school will open at the Pierpont Morgan Library in October.

The exhibition, “Raphael and His Circle,” will be shown Oct. 9-Jan. 3. The exhibition will consist of about 90 drawings by the 16th-Century Italian painter and his immediate followers.

The library says a group of more than 40 sheets by Raphael “documents virtually every important phase of his career and includes many of his most celebrated drawings.”