The Climbers, 1510. Engraving on laid paper. Sheet 284 x 224 mm. Sold for £4,750 on 14 December 2017 at Christie’s in London
Raimondi was also skilled enough to combine different sources in one print, as he did with The Climbers (above): a landscape copied from Lucas van Leyden, in which he set three male nudes lifted from the cartoon for Michelangelo’s never-realised fresco,
The Battle of Cascina.
By around 1510, Raimondi had settled in Rome. It was there that he struck up one of the greatest artistic double-acts of the Renaissance: with Raphael.
Giorgio Vasari thought Raimondi worthy of a whole chapter in his book,