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MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (C. 1480-1534)

Martha leading Mary Magdalene to the Temple

c.1500-1530

Engraving | 23.2 x 34.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851621

An engraving after a design the authorship of which is matter of dispute. Signed with engraver's empty tablet at lower left.

This print is thought to reproduce one of the frescoes once in the Chapel of Mary Magdalene in the church of SS. Trinità dei Monti, Rome. The frescoes, executed by Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni between 1520 and 1524, are now destroyed. Another fresco reproduced in an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi depicts Christ in the house of Simon (see RCIN 850520 for it).

Scholars are divided as to the authorship of the original design, with some ascribing it to Raphael (Oberhuber/Gnann 1999), and others to Giulio Romano (Shoemaker/Broun 1981). See Bibliographic References.

Closely related drawings are in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House (inv. no.63; see RCIN 851624 for a photograph of it) and in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich (inv. 2467). Two other drawings of this subject survive: one is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.4282; see RCIN 851626 for a photograph of it), and the other in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.183; see RCIN 851625 for a photograph of it).
  • Creator(s)

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

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 23.2 x 34.3 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Architecture
        • Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
          • Non-Christian religious architecture
            • Temples
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p.172, no.56 (entry 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)
    pp.221-2, no.XI.1 (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
    pp.595-8 (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))
    pp.180-1, no.118 (Oberhuber/Gnann 1999 : Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello, 1515-1527 / a cura di Konrad Oberhuber ; catalogo di Achim Gnann, 1999)