A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene at left, ill people at the right

A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene at left, ill people at the right by Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Medium

Engraving (heavily reworked)

Dimensions

Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 3/4 in. (19.9 × 24.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Henry Walters, 1917

Accession Number

17.37.156

Tags

IllnessSufferingMenWomenCows

About the Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 14751534

Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480–1534), born near Bologna, Italy, emerged as one of the Renaissance's premier engravers, revolutionizing printmaking through his mastery of reproductive techniques. He trained in the workshop of the goldsmith, painter, and niellist Francesco Francia, whose influence is evident in his early engravings, such as the goldsmith-like shading in *Pyramus and Thisbe* (1505), h...

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