Orpheus and Eurydice
Marcantonio Raimondi|Francesco Francia
ca. 1500–1506
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
5 1/16 x 3 7/8in. (12.9 x 9.8cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956
Accession Number
56.581.12
Tags
Musical InstrumentsEurydiceOrpheusMenWomen
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...