The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hosted an exhibition titled Raphael: Sublime Poetry, which aims to clarify the meaning of poetry. The exhibition, which opened at the museum in the late 1540s or early 1550s, reveals a body of work that pulses with life. The author argues that Raphael's work is not poetry as it is traditionally understood, but something closer to its origin, with an ordering of the world so precise it resembles revelation itself. His work reveals a mind in motion, testing, revising, refining with a discipline that is rigorous and intuitive. Portraiture is a system of articulation that allows identity, status, and value to be made visible. The exhibit also includes works developed in collaboration with Giulio Romano and Giulio.