This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting.
Why is she holding a unicorn?
A little baby unicorn: a foal with soft fur, a snub nose, a smooth muzzle, and a horn like a narwhal’s tusk spiraling up to heaven. The maiden that Raphael painted around 1505 cradles the critter, tender and tame. She’s ... [1604 chars]