Editing Raphael (section)

==Printmaking==
Raphael made no [[old master print|prints]] himself, but entered into a collaboration with [[Marcantonio Raimondi]] to produce [[engraving]]s to Raphael's designs, which created many of the most famous Italian prints of the century, and was important in the [[Old master print#The rise of the reproductive print|rise of the reproductive print]]. His interest was unusual in such a major artist; from his contemporaries it was only shared by [[Titian]], who had worked much less successfully with Raimondi.<ref>Pon:102. See also a lengthy analysis in: Landau:118 ff</ref> A total of about fifty prints were made; some were copies of Raphael's paintings, but other designs were apparently created by Raphael purely to be turned into prints. Raphael made preparatory drawings, many of which survive, for Raimondi to translate into engraving.<ref>The enigmatic relationship is discussed at length by both Landau and Pon in her Chapters 3 and 4.</ref>

The most famous original prints to result from the collaboration were ''Lucretia'', the ''Judgement of Paris'' and ''The Massacre of the Innocents'' (of which two virtually identical versions were engraved). Among prints of the paintings ''[[The Parnassus]]'' (with considerable differences)<ref>Pon:86–87 lists them</ref> and ''Galatea'' were also especially well known. Outside Italy, reproductive prints by Raimondi and others were the main way that Raphael's art was experienced until the twentieth century. [[Baviero Carocci]], called "Il Baviera" by Vasari, an assistant who Raphael evidently trusted with his money,<ref>"Il Baviera" may mean "the Bavarian"; if he was German, as many artists in Rome were, this would have been helpful during the 1527 Sack; Marcantonio had many printing-plates looted from him. Jones and Penny:82, see also Vasari</ref> ended up in control of most of the copper plates after Raphael's death, and had a successful career in the new occupation of a publisher of prints.<ref>Pon:95–136 & passim; Landau:118–60, and passim</ref>

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File:The_Massacre_of_the_Innocents_MET_DP839588.jpg|''The Massacre of the Innocents'', engraving by [[Marcantonio Raimondi]] from a design by Raphael.{{efn|The bridge in the background is the [[Pons Fabricius]].{{sfn|Salmi et al.|1969|p=579}}}} First state, "without fir tree"
File:Urteil des Paris.jpg|''Judgement of Paris'', still influencing [[Manet]], who used the seated group in his [[The Luncheon on the Grass|most famous work]].
File:Galatea (engraving).jpg|Galatea, engraving after the fresco in the [[Villa Farnesina]]
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