The Massacre of the Innocents
This version of the Massacre comes closest to the second state of Marcantonio's print (Bartsch 18. See Landau and Parshall, 'The Renaissance Print', p.134). The impression they illustrate is in the MFA in Boston (Accession number P1217). However there are features of the Met impression that are odd. At the top left, the church tower and its spike more or less reach to the top edge of the image, whereas in the Boston impression, there are more cloud forms above the spike and therefore more space to the upper edge (also evident in the third state (see 'Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the image multiplied', edited by Edward H. Wouk, 2016, p. 134). Furthermore, at bottom right, the two squares of the pavement in the Met impression are not divided and one of the central squares is not formed very satisfactorily. This seems to be either a copy or a falsified impression.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Massacre of the Innocents
- Artist: Possibly by Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) (Italian, Venice ca. 1490–after 1536 Rome)
- Artist: After Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))
- Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1512–13
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 17 1/16 in. (27.0 x 43.3 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941
- Object Number: 41.1.27
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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