Standing Male Nude
Marcantonio Raimondi
ca. 1506
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
7 x 3 5/8 in. (17.8 x 9.2 cm); maximum; corners have been cut
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Katrin Henkel, 2001
Accession Number
2001.452
Tags
Male Nudes
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi · 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...