The Plague in Crete (“Il Morbetto”)

Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphaelca. 1514-1515

Details

Title: The Plague in Crete (“Il Morbetto”)
Creator: Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael
Date Created: ca. 1514-1515
Print State: Second state
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1960
Materials & Techniques: Engraving on laid paper
Keywords: illness, mythology
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 195 mm x 248 mm (7.68 in. x 9.76 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 417 (vol. 14, p. 314) as “extrèmement rare”; Henri Delaborde 189 ii; Dora & Erwin Panofsky, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1958, p. 138 and fig. 30; Johann David Passavant (vol. 6), 24, 27; Illustrated Bartsch 417 (vol. 27, p. 105); Shoemaker 31; Goldfarb, Art’s Lament, cat. no. 4; Patricia Emison, The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence (Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire, 2006), cat. no. 33, pp. 58–59.;Dean, Fairbanks, and Pon, Changing Impressions (Yale University Art Gallery, 1999), cat. no. 22, pp. 64–67.
Associated People: Created by Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, ca. 1470/1482 - 1527/1534), After Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)
Accession Number: 1960.14.11

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