Poetry

Marcantonio Raimondi, engraver
Italy
c.1470-82 – 1527-34

after Raphael (Raphaello Sanzi or Sanki)
Italy
1483 – 1520

Poetry
c 1515
engraving on paper
Place made
Rome
Medium
engraving on paper
Dimensions
18.0 x 15.1 cm (plate & sheet)
Credit line
Bequest of David Murray 1908
Accession number
084G1687
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
B. XIV. 291. 382; Shoemaker 27
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    Marcantonio Raimondi is a pivotal figure in the history of printmaking: more than any other artist in the early development of engraving, he expanded the technical language of printmaking to enable it to better reproduce the particular qualities of drawings, paintings and sculpture. Trained in Bologna, Marcantonio moved to Rome around 1511, where his skill was recognised by Raphael and other leading artists.  His collaboration with painters created a new role for prints in mainstream art. This engraving of Poetry is thought to based on a now lost drawing by Raphael made for his painted roundel in the vault of the Vatican’s Stanza della Segnatura.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010
  • [Book] Shoemaker, Innis H. 1981. The engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi.
  • [Book] Oberhuber, Konrad. 1979. The illustrated Bartsch: The works of Marcantonio Raimondi and his school, vol. 26, 27.
  • [Book] Pon, Lisa. 2002. Raphael, Dürer and Marcantionio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print.
  • [Book] Gill, Meredith. 1983. Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. 2010. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.