A statue of Apollo, naked standing in a niche, holding a lyre in his left hand and leaning on a tree trunk
Marcantonio Raimondi
1512–15
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 8 15/16 x 4 5/16 in. (22.7 x 10.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.88
Tags
HarpsApollo
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi · 1475–1534
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...