Marcantonio Raimondi

Marcantonio Raimondi , or Marcantonio , (Bologna ~ 1480 - v. 1534) is a Italian engraver , known to be the first nobody to exclusively reproduce engravings of others Artiste S instead of creating his own works.

Career

Its beginnings

Marcantonio Raimondi was born about 1480 with Bologna, in Italy. It accepted there a formation with Francesco Squarcione in the workshop of the famous painter and Orfèvre, Francesco Raibolini, also called " Francia". Its first production dated, completed in 1505, illustrates the history of Pyrame and Thisbé. Vasari, the biographer, writes that Marcantonio quickly shows more aptitudes than Francia, and starts to design and produce belt buckles, " waist-buckles " , inter alia articles, in Niello , a black metal alloy with the mode.

Marcantonio then started to develop better techniques to engrave crockery, suited to the reproduction by using a press with impression. Although rudimentary methods of preparation of the dishes in series were used by the workshops of Venezia, of Emilie-Romagna, Toscane, and Lombardy, they were not able of the complexity wished by Marcantonio in its work.

Of 1505 with 1511, Marcantonio engraved approximately 80 parts, posting a large variety of topics, with much of references to the pagan Mythologie , and others illustrating of the stories and ideal Chrétiens. These engravings clearly show the effect of the formation of Francia, moderated by the technique, particularly in the background of the landscapes, resulting from the artists German S.

Reproductions

Trying to benefit from its talent in the copy, Marcantonio moves with Venice and created 69 Contrefaçon S in Cuivre of original engravings on wood made by Albrecht Dürer. There are contradictory stories about what arrives then. According to Vasari, indignation To last caused by these counterfeits was the cause of its voyage to Venice, where it is said that it deposited a legal complaint against Marcantonio. However, the information of Vasari is dubious, since the voyage To last towards Venice took place before the copies of Marcantonio are not published.

Rome

Towards 1510, Marcantonio travels to Rome and enters the circle of the artists surrounding Raphaël. This influence starts to appear in engravings entitled climbing the , in which it reproduces part of the Bataille of Cascina of Michel-Angel. Raphaël decides to form and assist personally Marcantonio after having seen a copy of its Lucrèce .

Both create a printing works thus, under the load of the colourist of Raphaël, It Baveria. Thanks to its success, the establishment is transformed soon into a school of engraving directed by Marcantonio. One counts among his most brilliant pupils Marco Dente known as “Marco da Ravenna”, and Agostino de Musi known as “Agostino Veneziano”.

Its last years

Marcantonio and its pupils continue to make the engravings based on the work of Raphaël, even after its death in 1520. In much of case, Marcantonio did not copy completed painting, but in the place worked on outlines and sketch. This method produced variations on work, moderately succeeded.

Towards 1524, Marcantonio was briefly imprisoned by the Pape Clément VII to have produced engravings erotic S, such as the whole of I Modi, based on works of Giulio Romano.

During the bag of Rome in 1527, it was constrained by the Spanish S to pay a heavy ransom and flees in poverty. The sources are fuzzy or non-existent on the place where he lived after his departure of Rome jusquà his death in 1534.

References

• This article contains text coming from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, an edition now in the Public domain.