Raphael: The Drawings, co-curated by Ben Thomas, opens at the Ashmolean Museum.

A ‘once in a lifetime’ exhibition of Raphael’s drawings opens on 1 June at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Co-curated by Dr Ben Thomas with the Ashmolean’s Catherine Whistler, the exhibition brings together 120 drawings by the great Renaissance master. It also draws on research funded by a Leverhulme Research Project Grant. Raphael: The Drawings has received extensive preview coverage with articles in The Financial Times, The Times, The Telegraph, and is ‘exhibition of the week’ in The Guardian.