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MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI
POETRY:
B. 382
Camera
After a lost drawing by Raphael for the della Segnatura in the Vatican
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facility
and technical
THE
amateur.
accomplishment shown in the best of Marcantonio's plates are not the best recommendation of his art to the modern
Academic perfection has tended so much to foster mere imitation and crush the smaller individualities, that one is often
surfeit to over-estimate the value of revolt
and the
things, and to
forget the real qualities of a great master amid the average production It must be confessed that a of his followers. great proportion of the
sixteenth-century engravings in Italy suffers from the overwhelming influence of Raphael. The engravers of the preceding century were far from attaining the same level of technical proficiency, but they
seldom
failed to show an independence that characterises even the minor works of the early Renaissance in Italy. According to Vasari, Marcantonio worked as an engraver in the
service of Raphael,
who
with these two adjutants carried on a considerable trade in reproOne would expect, if this had actually been ductions of his works.
the case, that Marcantonio's engravings would have more consistently reproduced Raphael's finished pictures or frescoes, as in the case of Rubens and the engravers who worked under his immediate direction.
this is practically never the case. Just a few of his prints correspond fairly closely with the finished compositions, with the painting in the Farnesina, but the e.g. the Galatea (xxx)
and
majority of the plates which are related to frescoes in the Vatican to other paintings by Raphael, seem to have been taken from
The finished sketches done by the master in the course of his work. show an advance in the development or compositions generally
concentration of the design beyond the state in which
it
is
rendered
led to
cast
on
the
S
GREAT ENGRAVERS
intimate association of Raphael and Marcantonio as related by Vasari. But Vasari wrote within fifty years of the event, and even in face of
a priori probabilities
in a period
weight.
Besides,
when
close reproduction
might quite well have preferred as an engraver, merely supplying him with justified by his genius
drawings to develop in
In
his own way. whether he worked in this manner directly in any case, of Raphael's service or not, he must somehow have obtained many
the master's preparatory studies for his paintings, and elaborated with a setting of his own invention.
them
original drawings used most certain being one for by the engraver can be traced, two of the the Lamentation (B. 37) in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and
There
are very
few examples
in
which the
xxm)
in
the
have, as far as possible, indicated beneath the plates the sources of the engravings, but in most instances it is only a relation to a finished composition that can be given, while in others the relation to painting and undefined.
Museum.
We
left
entirely
Rome
(where he lived
from 1510
until 1527),
may have supplied the original designs for other plates (e.g. the Triumph of Scipio, after a drawing in the Louvre). In the earlier part of his life at Bologna, where he was born about 1480, he must have reproduced or adapted compositions by his
master, the goldsmith-painter
Francesco
Francia
his
(see
i),
but the
manner may be
own
original
work.
He
have worked as a niello-engraver under Francia, and the closely hatched shading which characterises the Bolognese nielli account for the peculiarly dark style of his may engravings of this
is
said
to
period.
study of Durer was undoubtedly the chief influence in works clarifying his lineal style, which is seen at its best in the
early
The
MARCANTONIO
of his
Roman period, in plates such as the Poetry (FRONTISPIECE), and the Death of Lucretia (xix), with their perfection of line and alluring mellowness of tone.
Later he became more rugged and summary
pression, using a stronger
in his line
mode
work.
of ex-
The
development of his style may be exemplified in the two versions of the Massacre of the Innocents (xxn and xxm) and the Christ lamented
by
his
Marcantonio
correct.
if
the
How closely he was approached by the best work of his pupils, Marco de Ravenna and Agostino Veneziano, is shown by some of the examples of their work here given. Bartch was wise in classing their
plates
many
cases in the
absence of signature the authorship remains quite uncertain. From what we have said of Marcantonio's method of handling Raphael's designs, it will be seen that he was merely on the threshold
of reproductive engraving. For the better part of the sixteenth century most of the Italian engravers probably used the same liberty in interpreting their originals, and a school of reproductive engraving,
strictly so called, coincides
as Cornelis Cort,
and with the growing influence of the Carracci. Besides the line-engravers working more or less under the influence
of Marcantonio, of
whom
most individual, we have given examples of the original etchings of two famous painters, Parmigiano and Meldolla.
Parmigiano
is
one of the
earliest
make
His lightly bitten plates have all the regular practice of etching. characteristics of his swift and flowing pen drawings, with too little
emphasis to be forcible as etchings.
Nevertheless, in spite of their
mannerism,
imitators.
Meldolla,
who
is
better
known under
name
of Andrea
7
GREAT ENGRAVERS
Schiavone for
mythology,
as a
is
oblong panel-paintings of landscape and even more mannered than Parmigiano, and less secure
his
little
He was one of the first engravers to work with the dry-point, a process little used until the time of Rembrandt. His subjects are etched in a scratchy and irregular style, somewhat
draughtsman.
intensified
his plates,
which
tradition has
But with all their faults, there is a touch of described as of pewter. fire and a sense of motion in his pictures and prints, which render
them
peculiarly attractive.
MARCANTONIO BOI-OGNESE
1
NT A G
ATO
HE.
BOOKS OF REFERENCE
CUMBERLAND, George.
Some Anecdotes
London 1793
BARTSCH, Adam.
Le
Peintre-graveur.
Vols.
XIV-XVI.
Vienna 1813,
1818
PASSAVANT,
J.
D.
Le
Peintre-graveur.
Vol. VI.
as
Leipzig 1864
represented in the Royal
RULAND, Carl.
The Works
of Raphael Santi
1876
Jakrbuch der
kgl. Preuss.
LIPPMANN, F.
Kunstsamm/ungen,
270
Paris
DELABORDE, Henri.
FISCHEL, Oskar.
is
Marcantonio Raimondi.
1887
(Dr. Fischel
Raphael's Zeichnungen.
a
Strassburg 1898
catalogue of Raphael's drawings which is preparing certain to throw more light on their relation to Marcantonio's prints)
new complete
KRISTELLER, Paul.
Marcantons Beziehungen zu
Raffael.
Jahrbuch der
XXVIII
(1907), 199
HIND, A.
M.
Ed.
Sir
Sidney Colvin.
Catalogue of the
Early Italian
Museum.
London 1910
(includes Jacopo
LIST OF PLATES
The
abbreviations used in this
list
:
B.
= Bartsch
P.
Passavant.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI
Poetry. B.
382.
After a
lost
dr diving by
Raphael for
Frontispiece
the fresco in
the
Camera
The
Baptism of Christ,
for the picture at
i.
B. 22.
After a study by
(there
is
Francesco
the
Francia
Uffizi,
Hampton Court
a fragment in
n.
B. 396
in.
B.
iv.
398
98
B. 322
B.
314
Venus,
vn.
B. 312
a plant,
ix.
Woman
watering
vin.
B.
383
B. 313.
x.
B. 320
xi.
6.469
Man
asleep
by
wood.
xn.
B. 438
Allegorical
subject,
called "Raphael's
Dream."
xin.
B.
359.
The
Jerome,
original
xiv.
B.
102.
II
GREAT ENGRAVERS
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI
(continued}
The
Bathers,
cartoon
xv.
B.
487.
Based on
details
in
Michelangelo's
lost
of the
s
"
Battle ofP'ua."
the
Ley Jen
Monk
Adam and
Eve.
B.
xvn.
B. 295
The Death
of Dido.
xvin.
xix.
6.187
B. 192.
xx.
Vintage,
xxi.
B.
306
Raphatl for
God
appearing to Noah.
the ceiling
B. 3.
The
xxn.
B. 18.
ink).
First
and
Probably
Museum
The
xxm.
B. 20.
A second version
of
the
xxiv.
B. 34
xxv.
B.
35.
A second
version of the
St. Cecilia,
xxvi.
B. 116.
Bologna
Parnassus,
xxvn.
B.
247.
f resco
in the Vatican,
Rome.
xxvni.
B.
The Judgment
of Paris,
245.
Compare
reliefs in the
and
Villa
12
MARCANTONIO
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI
Jupiter and Cupid,
(continued}
xxix.
B. 342.
Based on a drawing
l>y
Raphaelfor
Rome
Galatea,
xxx.
B. 350.
Rome,
Strength,
xxxi.
B. 375
The
xxxn.
B.
52.
Raphael's
Madonna
di Foligno
St.
Paul and
Catherine,
xxxni.
xxxiv.
B. 113
B. 217
Children dancing,
man with
Berruti's
xxxv.
B.
356
Amadeo
Dialogue on Friendship,
Rome
/
1517.
XXXVI
xxxvn.
B.
432
The Three
Doctors,
xxxvm.
B.
404
xxxix.
Women
6.489
The Three
Graces.
XL.
Compare
the sculpture in
Fauns carrying
sarcophagus
child in a basket.
the Naples
B.
230.
After a relief on a
in
Museum
(reproduced,
E.
Gerhard,
Antike
Bildzverke, cxi)
XLII.
6.513
B.
XLIII.
496
GREAT ENGRAVERS
ANONYMOUS
:
SCHOOL OF MARCANTONIO
XLIV.
The
B. 48.
to
Possibly by
Marco da
Ravenna.
St.
Raphael, in Chatsivorth
B.
460
JACO?O FRANCIA
Lucretia.
XLVI.
B. 4.
clouds
were added
in
the
upper corners
B.icchus and his attendants.
XLVII.
B. xv. 646, 7
MARCO DENTE
Entellus and
DA RAVENNA
Dares.
XLVIII.
B.
195.
the
Laocoon.
XLIX.
B. 353
L.
B. 33
B 520
LII.
B.
418
ENEA Vico
Baccio Bandinelli and his pupils in his studio.
LIII.
B.
49
LIV.
NICOLAS BEATRIZET.
Portrait of
Antonio Salamanca,
printseller.
B. 6
GlULIO BoNASONK
Portrait of Michelangelo. Portrait of Raphael.
LVI.
LV.
B. 345.
6.347
14
MARCANTONIO
JACOPO CARAGLIO
The Annunciation.
GIORGIO GHISI
Fortune.
LVIII.
LVII.
B. 3.
After a
lost
picture by Titian
B. 34
a
genius.
LIX.
B. 38.
The
LX.
B.
Shepherd Boy.
B. 12
(St.
Woman
seated
on the ground
LXIII.
Thais?).
LXII.
B. IO
The Entombment.
B. 5
LXV.
B. xv, 105,
The
in the
portrait of
Marcantonio
at p. 8 of the
text
is
from a woodcut by
of his school)
artist
The
9 (Frieze of children)
?),
is
after an engraving
by the
B. 36.
is
The
an anonymous engraving of
I.
6.22
study by Francesco Francia for the picture at Hampton Court (there is a fragment in the Uffizi which may be part of the original w. at Bologna, drawing). Line-engraver ; b. ab. 1480 ; d. ab. 1530 Venice, and Rome
;
II.
THE SERPENT
III.
IV.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
DRAGON.
6.98
ST.
V.
B. 322
VI.
B. 314
VII.
B. 312
VIII.
IX.
B. 313
X.
B. 320
XI.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
ACHILLINI.
3.469
PORTRAIT OF PHILOTHEO
XII.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
B.438
MAN
ASLEEP BY A WOOD.
XIII.
SUBJECT,
The
fantastic
XIV.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
The
ST.
JEROME.
B. 102
XV.
B. 487
Based on details in Michelangelo's lost cartoon of the Battle of Pisa. The landscape is copied from Lucas van Leyden's Mahomet and the
XVI.
EVE.
B.
XVII.
XVIII.
B. 187
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
ceiling
of
the
Stanza of
XXII.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
INNOCENTS.
B. 18
XXIII.
Marcantonio himself
XXIV.
CHRIST LAMENTED BY
CHRIST LAMENTED BY
Marc-
MOTHER.
XXVI.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
ST. CECILIA. B. 116 After a study by Raphael for the picture in Bologna.
XXVII.
B. 247 Based on some drawing by Raphael for the fresco in the Vatican,
XXVIII.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
PARIS.
B. 245
THE JUDGMENT OF
reliefs
After a drawing by Raphael based on the antique (compare in the Villa Medici, and Villa Pamphilj, Rome)
XXIX.
2.342
Rome
B. 350 After the painting by Raphael in the Farnesina, Rome, or based on some study for it. This engraving shows fewer variations from Raphael's finished composition than almost any other Marcantonio print connected with the subject of a Raphael picture
XXXI.
B. 375
XXXII.
Madonna
di
Foligno
XXXIII.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI. CHRIST IN GLORY WITH THE VIRGIN, ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST. PAUL AND ST. CATHERINE. B. 113
XXXIV.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
B. 217
CHILDREN DANCING.
XXXV. MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI. ALLEGORICAL SUBJECT (THE MAN WITH THE DOUBLE TRUMPET). B. 356
XXXVI.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
Dialogue on Friendship, Rome,
Illustration to
Amadco
Berruti'
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI. THE YOUNG MOTHER AND TWO MEN. B. 432 XXXVIII. MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI. THE THREE DOCTORS.
XXXVII.
B.
4o 4
XXXIX.
XL.
B. 340
Compare
No. 1427)
JIC ROf-SCAJUTESNIVEO
EX
MARMORE
SCVLP
XLI.
Museum
(reproduced,
XLII.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
ARETINO. 6.513
PORTRAIT
OF
PIETRO
Vasari refers to this plate as a portrait by Marcantonio from the life (Aretino, the notorious blackmailer and litterateur, was in Rome
about 1526).
to regard
it as
Apart from this tradition one might be more inclined based on some Venetian painting.
XLIII.
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI.
RAPHAEL. 6.496
SUPPOSED PORTRAIT OF
XLIV.
ANONYMOUS SCHOOL OF MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI THE VIRGIN READING TO (MARCO DA RAVENNA THE CHILD. B. 48
:
?).
XLV.
ANONYMOUS
ST.
subject
SCHOOL OF MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI. HELENA AND THE VISION OF THE CROSS. B. 460 near in style to Parmigiano. A picture of the same The design
:
is
by Paul Veronese
may have
taken
its
LUCRETIA.
B. 4
;
XLVII.
JACOPO FRANCIA.
B. xv. 646, 7
XLVIII.
DARES.
Based on an antique relief in the Lateran, Rome (Benndorf and Schone, Leipzig, 1867, No. 13). Line-engraver ; d. 1527 ; w. at Rome, under the immediate influence of Marcantonio
XLIX.
B. 353
L.
AGOSTINO (VENEZIANO) DE' MUSI. THE THREE HOLY WOMEN GOING TO THE SEPULCHRE. B. 33
Line-engraver
;
influence of Marcantonio at
Rome
LI.
m
m
jm
"
>'
&
-f
LII.
AND
B. 418
LIII.
ENEA VICO.
HIS STUDIO.
LIV.
b. ab.
1515
d. ab.
1560
w. at Luneville and
Rome
ANTCJN7VS
S
SALAMANCA, ORJH S
ANTJQVITATVM JMITATOK
LV.
Bologna and
Rome
LVI.
B. 347
LVII.
B. 3
d.
1565
w. in Parma,
LVIII.
B. 34
;
w. at Mantua
LIX.
GIORGIO GHISI. THREE MUSES AND A GENIUS, AFTER A CEILING PAINTING BY PRIMATICCIO ONCE IN FONTAINEBLEAU. B. 38
LX.
4
;
b. 1503 (1504
?)
d.
1540
w. at Parma
LXI.
LXII.
WOMAN SEATED
LXIII.
LXIV.
b.
1522
(?)
d.
LXV.
ANONYMOUS ETCHER AFTER TINTORETTO. PORTRAIT OF THE DOGE PASQUALE CICOGNA. B. xv. 105,
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