Man Carrying the Base of a Column
1515/30
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet, trimmed to platemark: 22.7 × 14 cm (8 15/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
106679
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Agostino Veneziano was one of the chief assistants in the workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi, the premier engraver of Raphael’s drawings. Both artists engraved versions of Man Carrying the Base of a Column, which bear striking resemblances to each other; it is unclear which print came first. Raimondi reversed the compositions of his sources, and his rendition of this scene is a mirror image of the present work. Agostino Veneziano’s curious Man under a Laurel Tree (1920.2361) may also reproduce a R...