High priest refusing sacrificial lamb from Joachim, after Dürer
ca. 1500–1534
Medium
Engraving; second state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 10 5/8 in. (37.2 × 27 cm) Plate: 11 9/16 × 8 5/16 in. (29.3 × 21.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.3312
Tags
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer · 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...