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Marcantonio Raimondi (engraver)
Raphael (after)
Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (1520-1525)
engraving
23.8 × 40.2 cm (image and sheet, trimmed within platemark)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
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Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia
(1520-1525)
Medium
engraving
Measurements
23.8 × 40.2 cm (image and sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Identified in the sixteenth century as depicting the martyrdom of Saint Felicity, this engraving is now understood to show the martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, one of the most famous virgin martyrs of the early Christian church. Cecilia was boiled in a cauldron of oil and subsequently beheaded for inciting her husband to convert to Christianity to protect her virginity. Her husband and his brother were both martyred by beheading prior to Cecilia’s death. Marcantonio Raimondi was active solely as a printmaker, establishing a successful career engraving the designs of other artists, most famously those of Raphael.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch 117; Shoemaker & Broun 55
Inscription
printed in ink c.r.: RA• VR• IN / MAF (monogram)
Accession Number
1278.660-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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