The Deposition; Christ being taken from the Cross, a man on a ladder is holding the body while St John is supporting the weight with a cloth rope, after Dürer
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer
ca. 1500–34
Medium
Engraving; second state of three
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/16 × 3 15/16 in. (12.9 × 10 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Accession Number
17.37.260
Tags
Descent from the Cross
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer · 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...