Marcantonio Raimondi belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Marcantonio Raimondi as 16th-century Italian engraver and printmaker (1480–1534).
Marcantonio Raimondi was born at Molinella in 1480. His recorded nationality is Italy.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as engraver, painter and goldsmith.
His best-known work is The Judgment of Paris. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Marcantonio Raimondi died in 1534, aged 54. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Judgment of Paris
