Dish
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 2 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (5.4 × 47 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
Italian, Urbino
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1941
Accession Number
41.49.4
Tags
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Giulio Romano|Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo · 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...