The Virgin Adored by Saints, plate 17 from the Life of the Virgin
The Virgin Adored by Saints, plate 17 from the Life of the Virgin

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The Virgin Adored by Saints, plate 17 from the Life of the Virgin,

printed 18th century

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1480–ca. 1534; born San Martino dall’Argine, Italy; died Bologna, Italy
after Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528; born and died Nuremberg, Germany; active Venice, Italy, and Nuremburg
x1966-12
The Bolognese artist Marcantonio Raimondi was easily themost important printmaker of the Italian Renaissance, famous for designs of his own invention as well as for his superlative engraved copies after his contemporaries Michelangelo and Raphael. According to Giorgio Vasari’s historical account of the evolution of Italian art, Lives of the Artists (1568), around 1505 Raimondi acquired impressions of Dürer’s woodcut series Life of the Virgin in Venice—the capital of Italian printmaking— and published his own engraved copies, reproducing Dürer’s distinctive monogram in each plate.

Information

Title
The Virgin Adored by Saints, plate 17 from the Life of the Virgin
Dates

printed 18th century

Maker
Marcantonio Raimondi
after Albrecht Dürer
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 30 x 21.5 cm (11 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 30.1 x 21.6 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Margaret and Millard Meiss Fund
Object Number
x1966-12
Place Made

Europe, Italy

Inscription
Monogram in plate on base of candelabra, upper left: MAF Initials in plate on escutcheon near putto, lower left corner: ND / FS [in hourglass]
Reference Numbers
Bartsch 407.637; Delaborde 262.251
Culture
Italian, European
Type
prints, engravings
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
engraving (printing process)
Subject
angels, gods, figures (representations), rooms, men, Christ, Mary, women

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