The triumph of a Roman Emperor
ca. 1530–50
Medium
Engraving made up in parts with pen and black ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/8 × 19 5/16 in. (34 × 49 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Paul Ganz, by exchange, 1960
Accession Number
60.514.1
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...