Man sleeping at the edge of a wood with a woman knealing at his side with one hand on a pot and the other on the shoulder of an old man who gestures with left hand towards the sky

About the Artist

Marcantonio Raimondi|Francesco Francia · 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...