Rediscovering Raphael Apollo, Minerva e le Muse A rare image of Apollo, Minerva e le Muse , executed by Raphael and engraved by is his close assistant Marcantonio Raimondi now exhibited at Toeslam E Bay Shop . .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. 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 color. This is doubted, however, by Hind, who sees no evidence of a background in niello technique in his early engravings.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 Michelangelos 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 Edouard Manet when he painted the The Luncheon on the Grass.The two started a successful printing establishment under a color grinder, 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). Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520[3]), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter , print maker and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoes Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. ebay/itm/Raphael-Sanzio-Joseph-Rachel-and-Leah-Original-engraved-work-from-Vatican-/281375796813 Marcantonio Raimondi - Apollo, Minerva e le Muse - after Raphael Marcantonio Raimondi - Apollo,Minerva e le Muse -after Raphael. This rare engraving on antique Laid paper with trimmed margins measures 2 2/8 inches by 5 inches.Otherwise in good condition . Listed rare image can be found in the Catalog Reference Bartsch Catalog /Tib 268-278 Nagler for the complete series .Marcantonio Raimondi, also simply Marcantonio (c. 1480 – c. 1534), was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important print maker whose body of work consists mainly of prints copying paintings.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 01:07:12 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015