Marcantonio Raimondi

Marcantonio Raimondi (circa 1480-c. 1534), Italian Renaissance engraver, born near Bologna. Raimondi worked as a silversmith before turning to engraving designs on metal plates for printing, the art in which he achieved fame. The principal influence on his style was the work of the great German master Albrecht Dürer, whose engravings Raimondi copied frequently, even adding Dürer's signature. About 1510 Raimondi settled in Rome, and for ten years he worked in close association with the Italian painter Raphael, engraving Raphael's designs and paintings; these represent Raimondi's finest work. After Raphael's death in 1520, Raimondi engraved the works of Raphael's followers, chiefly those of the Italian Mannerist painter Giulio Romano.