Marcantonio Raimondi

Biography
1480 - 1534

About the artist

Marcantonio Raimondi was born in Bologna, Italy, in the year 1480. He received his education in the same city, where he lived until he moved to Venice and later to Rome, in 1510. Here, he would spend the rest of his life.

Despite him producing many original works, he is most renowned because of his engraved copies after originals of Michelangelo, Peruzzi and Raphael. The latter is said to have only gained his fame because of the copies of his work by Raimondi.

Not everyone was pleased with Raimondi practicing his copying skills: Dürer personally accused him of improperly using his series "The Life of Mary".

Around 1524 Marcantonio was briefly imprisoned by Pope Clemens VII because of the production of a series of erotic engravements based on Giulio Romano's paintings.

In 1534 Raimondi passed away in Rome.
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