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Best known for his partnership with Raphael, the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-c. 1534) enabled Renaissance artists to disseminate their designs in print, advancing a revolution in visual communication that still reverberates in our own information age. Yet Marcantonio did more than render compositions by famous artists in the novel medium of engraving. The entries and essays in this catalogue, written by a group of international scholars and published to accompany the first exhibition of Marcantonio's work in over three decades, reveal the diversity of Marcantonio's oeuvre and the scope of his innovation as the leading printmaker of the Italian Renaissance. In-depth studies of Marcantonio's engravings expand our knowledge of his collaboration with Raphael, while also probing Marcantonio's creative response to the dynamic humanist culture in his native Bologna and later in Venice and Rome. Contributions also examine engravings by Marcantonio's 'followers' and consider the importance of his work to the history of print collecting. -- .
Contents
Foreword by Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of the Whitworth and Manchester City GalleriesIntroduction - Edward H. WoukBiographical notes on Marcantonio Raimondi and the publisher Il Baviera - Edward H. Wouk and Guido RebecchiniPart I: The Art of Marcantonio Raimondi1. The Forest around the Fir Tree: Looking for Marcantonio Raimondi's Art - Patricia Emison2. Troubled Waters: Marcantonio Raimondi and Durer's Nightmares on the Shore - Beverly Brown3. Dido and Lucretia: Raphael's Designs and Marcantonio's Engravings - Paul Joannides 4. From Death to Print: The Morbetto and the Power of Engraving in Raphael's Rome - Edward H. Wouk5. Raphael's Vitruvius and Marcantonio Raimondi's Caryatid Facade - Kathleen ChristianPart II: Collecting Marcantonio Raimondi6. The Spencer Album of Marcantonio Raimondi Prints in the John Rylands Library - Lisa Pon and Edward H. Wouk7. The Clough Collection of Prints at the Whitworth Institute - David Morris8. The Manuscript Notes of Frederic Maximilien [de] Waldeck (1766?-1875) on Marcantonio Raimondi - Henri Zerner9. The Raphael Collection of the Prince Consort at Windsor Castle - Tatiana BissolatiPart III: Catalogue of the ExhibitionEntries for Sixty ObjectsIndex -- .
