Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Julius Caesar, from The Twelve Caesars
ca. 1500–1534
Medium
Engraving; third state of three
Dimensions
mount: 11 x 16 3/4 in. (28 x 42.6 cm) sheet: 6 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (16.5 x 15 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941
Accession Number
41.72(3.83)
Tags
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Antonio Salamanca · 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...