Object number1941.1.58
The Climbers
Date1510
Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi
(Italian, c. 1480–c. 1534)
after
Michelangelo Buonarroti
(Italian, 1475-1564)
after
Lucas van Leyden
(Netherlandish, 1494 - 1533)
CultureItalian
MediumEngraving in black ink on cream laid paper, only state
DimensionsImage: 11 x 8 5/8 in. (28 x 21.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg and her children
On View
Not on viewPeriod16th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, lower left corner in pencil: 41.1.58
Catalogue raisonnéBartsch 487BibliographyShoemaker, Innis H., and Elizabeth Broun. The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1981, pl. 19;
Catherine Wilkinson, “The Engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi,” Art Journal 42, no. 3. (Autumn, 1982): 236-239; reproduced p. 237;
Limouze, Dorothy and Susan Kuretsky. The Felix M. Warburg Print Collection: A Legacy of Discernment. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 1995;
Pon, Lisa. Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2004, pl. 38;
Bernadine Barnes, Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, Ashgate and Wake Forest University, 2010, 16-21;
Sharon Gregory, Vasari and the Renaissance Print. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012, 172-174;
Wouk, Edward H., David Morris, and Marcantonio Raimondi. Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the Image Multiplied. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016, no. 18 ProvenanceCollections: Felix M. and Frieda Warburg, New YorkVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryDrawings and Prints of the First Maniera, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, February 22 - March 25, 1973; Raphael and the Ruins of Rome, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, November 12, 1983 - January 20, 1984;
Transmission of Fame: Italian Renaissance Prints, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - June 13, 2004;
In Translation: Prints Across Media, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 28 - September 18, 2022
DescriptionThree muscular men in nature, one kneeling on the ground bending forward, one hoisting his left leg up to be on flat ground, and another sitting and pointing with an outstretched hand toward a group of men with spears along the tree line on the left; the background shows a hilled landscape with a small town, the midground includes a small wooden and thatched roof structure to the right, and a small plaque-like area in the lower center of the work reads '1510'
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Marcantonio Raimondi
c. 1515-1516
Culture: Italian
