Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print

by Lisa Pon

In early sixteenth-century Italy, works of art came to be understood as unique objects made by individuals of genius, giving rise to a new sense of the artist as the author of his images. At the same time, the practice of engraving, a medium that produced multiple printed images via collaborative processes, rapidly developed. In this book, Lisa Pon examines how images passed between artists and considers how printing techniques affected the authorship of images. Pon focuses on the encounters between the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi and three key Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, and Giorgio Vasari. She reevaluates their work in light of the tensions between possessive authorship and practical collaboration in the visual arts.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published February 9, 2004

Reviews

[Aeroyou]

A ne pas lire si ce n'est pas dans le cadre d'un travail académique ou si vous n'êtes pas passionnés par les gravures copiant des oeuvres de Raphaël et de Dürer.

[Cynthia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sadly the title of the book doesn't coincide with the actual content. This book should have Marcantonio Raimondi more central in the title. For anyone looking for the relation of Durer, and his followers in Nuremberg to Raimondi and how mutual copying took place will be dissapointed, because it generates no new knowledge on this topic. However, when studying Raimondi himself and copying techniques this book is recommended.