Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Raimondi, Marcantonio

RAIMONDI, MARCANTONIO, an Italian engraver; born in Bologna, Italy, late in the 15th century. A goldsmith by trade, he early turned to engraving, and received his first great stimulus from woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, which he saw at Venice about 1505. At Rome, where he worked from 1510, he was chiefly engaged in engraving Raphael's works, as “Lucretia,” the “Massacre of the Innocents,” the “Three Doctors of the Church,” “Adam and Eve,” “Dido,” “Poetry,” the “Judgment of Paris,” etc., and subsequently those of Raphael's pupil, Giulio Romano. He is accounted the best among the engravers of the great painter. He died some time before 1534.