Apollo on Parnassus, Surrounded by the Muses and Poets

Prints and Drawings

1517/20

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, c. 1480-1534)
after Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)

Famous artworks replicated in print became more famous with each copy. While Marcantonio Raimondi was sued by Albrecht Dürer for illegally copying his woodcuts, he worked directly with Raphael to create printed versions of the master’s paintings and drawings for dissemination. The fresco of Apollo on Parnassus would have been inaccessible even to buyers who could afford this large print, as it was in Pope Julius II’s personal library in the Vatican. The engraving explicitly mentions this; the inscription on the doorway beneath the painting reads Raphael Pinxit in Vaticano, MAF (Raphael painted [the fresco] in the Vatican and Marcantonio made [the engraving].)

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Marcantonio Raimondi
Title: Apollo on Parnassus, Surrounded by the Muses and Poets
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1517–1520
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed recto lower center, in plate in image: “RAPHAEL PINXIT IN VATICANO / MAF” (monogram)
Dimensions: 35.8 × 47.2 cm (14 1/8 × 18 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1944.621
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Lawrence, KS, The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, “The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi,” November 16, 1981-January 3, 1982; also traveled to Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 10-March 28, 1982; and Wellesley College Art Museum, MA, April 15-June 15, 1982; pp. 155-57, cat. 48b (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Art of Music: A Salute to the Centennial Season of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,” November 1, 1990-March 31, 1991, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life,” April 30-July 10, 2011, cat. 1.

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