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The Three Graces sitting on clouds, cupid at the left, after Raphael's fresco in the Chigi Gallery of the Villa Farnesina in Rome

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Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

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Renaissance representation of classical ruins was a symbol of antiquity, enlightenment, and lost knowledge. Ruins spoke to the passage of time. The greatest subject for ruin artists was the overgrown and crumbling Classical Rome remains. Forum and the Colosseum, Pantheon, and the Appian Way. Initially, art representations of Rome were realistic, but soon the imagination of artists took flight. Roman ruins were scattered around the city, but frustrated artists began placing them in more pleasing arrangements. Capriccio was a style of imaginary scenes of buildings and ruins.

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.

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marcantonio raimondi engraving prints after raphael graces three graces clouds cupid raphael and fresco chigi gallery chigi gallery villa farnesina villa farnesina rome roman 16th century history of rome italian art high resolution ultra high resolution bologna bologna italy late renaissance metropolitan museum of art medieval art italian renaissance apennine peninsula
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1517 - 1519
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Roman Wonders

Prints of Rome's views, buildings and ruins

Italian Prints

Set of random Italian prints from NYPL collection
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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http://www.metmuseum.org/
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marcantonio raimondi engraving prints after raphael graces three graces clouds cupid raphael and fresco chigi gallery chigi gallery villa farnesina villa farnesina rome roman 16th century history of rome italian art high resolution ultra high resolution bologna bologna italy late renaissance metropolitan museum of art medieval art italian renaissance apennine peninsula