Martha leading Mary Magdalene up a flight of stairs to Christ who is seated at right at the entrance to a temple
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 14 1/16 in. (24.7 × 35.7 cm) Plate: 9 7/16 × 13 1/2 in. (23.9 × 34.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Burton Emmett, 1929
Accession Number
29.49.51
Tags
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Antonio Salamanca|Nicolaus van Aelst|Giulio Romano · 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...