Medium
Etching; first state of four (NH) before letters but very damaged.
Dimensions
sheet: 7 11/16 x 5 5/16 in. (19.5 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.634
Tags
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)|Pietro Aretino|Wenceslaus Hollar · 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...