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Mythology & Putti

    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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