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Excerpt from Marcantonio and Italian Engravers and Etchers of the Sixteenth Century
Later he became more rugged and summary in his mode of ex pression, using a stronger and more open system of line work. The development of his style may be exemplified in the two versions of the Massacre ofthe Innocents (xxu and XXIII) and the Christ lamented by his [mother (xxiv and xxv), Le. If the plausible theory that Marcantonio repeated himself in a popular subject at a later date be correct, How closely he was approached by the best work of his pupils, Marco de Ravenna and Agostino Veneziano, is shown by some of the examples of their work here given. Bartch was wise in classing their plates with the master's in one catalogue, for in many cases in the absence of signature the authorship remains quite uncertain.
From what We have said of Marcantonio's method of handling Raphael's designs, it will be seen that he was merely on the threshold of reproductive engraving, For the better part of the sixteenth century most of the Italian engravers probably used the same liberty in interpreting their originals, and a school of reproductive engraving, strictly so called, coincides with the advent in Italy of Flemings, such as Cornelis Cort, and with the growing in?uence ofthe Carracci.
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