Marcantonio Raimondi

Marcantonio Raimondi
Marcantonio Raimondi, also simply Marcantonio (c. 1480 c. 1534), was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists mainly of prints copying paintings. He is therefore a key figure in the rise of the reproductive print. He also systematized a technique of engraving that became dominant in Italy and elsewhere.

Biography
Early years
Marcantonio Raimondi was born around 1480-2, probably in Argine, near Bologna, Italy. Marcantonio received his training in the workshop of the famous goldsmith and painter of Bologna, Francesco Raibolini, best known as Francia. Vasari, a biographer, writes that Marcantonio quickly demonstrated more aptitude than Francia, and started designing and producing fashionable waist-buckles (among other items) in niello, engraved metal which is filled in with alloy in a contrasting colour. This is doubted, however, by Hind, who sees no evidence of a background in niello technique in his early engravings.

Lucretia, engraved by Raimondi after a design by Raphael.

No paintings produced by Marcantonio are known or documented, although some drawings survive. His first dated engraving, Pyramus and Thisbe, comes from 1505, although a number of undated works come from the years before this. From 15051511, Marcantonio engraved about 80 pieces, with a wide variety of subject matter, from pagan mythology, to religious scenes. His early works use his own compositions, combining elements from Francia and other North Italian artists, and like all Italian printmakers in these years he was strongly affected by the enormously The Massacre of the Innocents, designed by Raphael. accomplished prints of Drer, which were widely distributed in Italy. Like other printmakers such as Giulio Campagnola, he borrowed elements of Drer's landscapes in a cut and paste fashion, and also borrowed from his technique. Drer was in Bologna in 1506, as was Michelangelo, and he may have met one or both of them.

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Reproductions
About this time he began to make copies of Drer's woodcut series, the Life of the Virgin. This was extremely common practice, although normally engravers copied other expensive engravings rather than the cheaper woodcuts. However Drer's woodcuts had raised the standard of the medium considerably, and since Marcantonio continued to copy a large number of both Drer's engravings and woodcuts, he must have found it profitable. His early copies included Drer's famous AD monogram, and Drer made a complaint to the Venetian Government, Judgement of Paris, c. 1515, Marcantonio after Raphael which won him some legal protection for his monogram, but not his compositions, in Venetian territory - an important case in the slowly evolving history of intellectual property law. Marcantonio appears to have spent some of the last half of the decade in Venice, but no dates are known.

Rome
Around 1510, Marcantonio travelled to Rome and entered the circle of artists surrounding Raphael. This influence began showing up in engravings titled The Climbers (in which he reproduced part of Michelangelo's Soldiers surprised bathing, also called Battle of Cascina). After a reproduction of a work by Raphael, entitled Lucretia, Raphael trained and assisted Marcantonio personally. Another famous engraving, the Judgement of Paris, dated 1515 or 1516, after Raphael, became the composition source for douard Manet when he painted the The Luncheon on the Grass. The two started a successful printing establishment under a colorgrinder, Il Baveria, that quickly expanded into an engraving school with Marcantonio at the head. Among his most distinguished pupils were Marco Dente (Marco da Ravenna), Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio and Agostino de Musi (Agostino Veneziano).

Later years
Marcantonio and his pupils continued to make viola da mano, by Marcantonio Raimondi, c. 1510. It was produced from a lost original painting by Francesco Francia. engravings based upon Raphael's work, even after Raphael's death in 1520. In many instances, Marcantonio would not copy the finished painting, but would instead worked from early sketches and drafts. This method produced variations on a theme and were moderately successful. Around 1524, Marcantonio was briefly imprisoned by Pope Clement VII for making the I modi set of erotic engravings, from the designs of Giulio Romano, which were later accompanied by sonnets written by Pietro Aretino.
A well-known engraving of Giovanni Filoteo Achillini; Suonatore di

Marcantonio Raimondi At the intercession of the Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, Baccio Bandinelli and Pietro Aretino, he was released, and set to work on his plate of the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence after Bandinelli. During the Sack of Rome, in 1527, he was forced to pay a heavy ransom by the Spaniards and fled in poverty. It is unclear where he stayed after his departure from Rome until his death in 1534.

References
This articleincorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Marcantonio" [1]. Encyclopdia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z) [2]. York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p.341. Bull, George (1976). Aretino: Selected Letters. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p.156.

External links
Biographical information
Artcyclopedia: Marcantonio Raimondi (1480 - 1527) [3] Catholic Encyclopedia: Marcantonio Raimondi [4] Marcantonio Raimondi (Getty Museum) [5]

Reproductions of his works

Works at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa [6] Cybermuse [7] Childs Gallery [8] Marcantonio Raimondi engravings from De Verda collection [9] Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures [10], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Marcantonio Raimondi (see index)

References
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