Raphael, Durer, and Marcantonio Raimondi FROM THE PUBLISHER
Lisa Pon focuses on encounters between the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi and three key artists, describing how Marcantonio copied Albrecht Durer's woodcuts, collaborated with Raphael to create printed masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, and was featured in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. She demonstrates various ways the tensions between possessive authorship and practical collaboration in the visual arts arose and were played out: in the collision between legitimate copying and artistic originality: in the parallels between the hand-drawn trace and the printed line: and in the consideration of printmakers within a series of artists biographies.
This book reframes the analysis of both the production of prints and the relation between printmaker and artist during a crucial period in European art.
SYNOPSIS
Rather than a life of the Italian printmaker, this text seeks to describe and define the process used by Marcantonio Raimondi to produce prints by copying paintings (in the case of Raphael) or other prints, as when he produced a set of engravings based on Dﾽrer's Life of the Virgin woodcut cycle. In her discussion of this selection of Marcantonio's prints, Pon (associate curator of academic programs, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Mass.) considers the notion of an artist's signature, the nature of a copy, and how best to define and understand the process, production, and authorship of prints based on copies. A final chapter analyzes Vasari's biographies of Marcantonio and others to demonstrate his (Vasari's) attitude towards prints and their manufacture. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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