MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)

The Judgment of Paris

c.1515-20

Engraving | 28.8 x 43.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851707

An engraving after a lost design by Raphael showing similarities to a grisaille fresco beneath the 'Parnassus' in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Museums (c.1512-13). The date of both the original design by Raphael and the engraving is matter of dispute. Signed on plate with engraver's monogram at lower centre: MAF. A copy in the same direction by Marco da Ravenna at RCIN 851709; an anonymous copy at RCIN 851708. For a discussion on sources Raphael may have used for designing the composition, including ancient sarcophagi now at the Villa Medici and Villa Pamphili in Rome, see Shoemaker/Broun 1981 (no.43).

Creator(s)

Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-1534) (engraver)

After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
28.8 x 43.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
  
  Literature
  
  Fiction
  
  Tales & legends
  
  Myths
- Religion & Theology
  
  Religions and faiths
  
  Religions of antiquity
  
  Classical mythology
  
  Paris (mythological character)
  
  Venus (mythology)
  
  Juno (myth)
  
  Athena
  
  Jupiter (myth)
  
  Diana (myth)
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.146-7, no.43; p.190, under no.65 (entries by Innis H. Shoemaker) (Shoemaker/Broun 1981 : I. Shoemaker and E. Broun. The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi 1981 : Spencer Museum of Art; The Ackland Art Museum, 1981)

p.242, no.II.1 (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)

p.162 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))

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The Judgment of Paris

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