Word: raimondi
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi have been added recently to the Print Collection of the Fogg Museum: the Climbers, after Michelangelo, and the Judgement of Paris, after Raphael. The former is interesting especially because it is one of few contemporaneous copies of the important cartoon, now lost, which represented an episode in the war between the Florentines and the Pisans. The latter is a fine early impression from one of Marcantonio's most beautiful plates...
...print-room. These prints have been selected from the collection of the Museum, with additions from Mr. Francis Bullard's collection. It illustrates the development of copperplate engraving from its beginning to the time of the three great sixteenth century masters: Durer, Lucas van Leyden, and Mariautonio Raimondi. The prints shown are remarkable not only for the great beauty of the impressions but also in some instances, for their extreme rarity. The Otto print, for example, is a unique impression, the Assumption of the Virgin is one of only four known impressions, and Pollajuolo's Gladiators, the only plate...