. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . arocci), was the printer and publisherof the engravings that camefrom the studio. The differencein the treatment of the engrav-ings corresponds to the differ-ences in Raphaels originalswhich Marc-Antonio had toreproduce. He clearly madeit his aim to express in hisengraving the character of theexample before him, whetherthis was a mere sketch, a studyworked in washes of sepia andheightened with white, or acompleted painting. His exe-cution obviously became drierand more restrained when hewas dealing with a finis
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . arocci), was the printer and publisherof the engravings that camefrom the studio. The differencein the treatment of the engrav-ings corresponds to the differ-ences in Raphaels originalswhich Marc-Antonio had toreproduce. He clearly madeit his aim to express in hisengraving the character of theexample before him, whetherthis was a mere sketch, a studyworked in washes of sepia andheightened with white, or acompleted painting. His exe-cution obviously became drierand more restrained when hewas dealing with a finishedwork. His engravings afterRaphaels paintings are, in con-sequence, usually less successful than those after his drawings. The Massacre of theInnocents, for its richness of composition and power ofexecution, has long ranked as one of Marc-Antonios master-pieces. (A copy, the so-called Massacre by the Little Fir-tree/ is attributed by recent research to Marco da Ravenna.)^ The Massacre of the Innocents may rank as the type of3. whole group of engravings executed with particular. Fig. 45. Marc-AntonioRaimondi: St. Barbara. lOO ENGRAVING IN ITALY tenderness. To this group belong The Judgment of Paris,Dido (B. 187), God appearing to Noah (B. 3); (fig. 46; B. 116) after an early study differingstrongly from the finished painting ; Poetry, from theceiling decoration of the Stanza della Segnatura; the printknown as the Morbetto, picturing the plague among thePhrygians described by Virgil; The Virgin beneath the
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