# The Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAIMONDI, Marcantonio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Engraving, 124 x 97 cm ## Commentary This outstanding engraving was made after <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/durer/2/12/5virgin/09\_life.html'\)" href="/html/d/durer/2/12/5virgin/09\_life.html">Dürer's woodcut</A> from the series of Life of the Virgin. Marcantonio Raimondi, from Bologna, was the best copyist of Dürer's graphic prints in Italy, and worked faster than any other; he was also the most damaging to Dürer's own business. In all, his workshop produced copies of eight engravings and over 60 woodcuts by the Nuremberg master, and to Dürer's great annoyance they came on the art market as genuine. According to Vasari, Raimondi had acquired his models in the Piazza di San Marco in Venice. ## Related artworks - [Apollo Citharoedus of the Casa Sassi]() - [Apollo on the Parnassus]() - [Crouching Venus]() - [David and Goliath]() - [God Appearing to Noah]() - [Jesus before the Temple]() - [Lamentation]() - [Lucretia]() - [Mars, Venus, and Eros \(detail\)]() - [Mars, Venus, and Eros]() - [Martyrdom of St Lawrence]() - [Massacre of the Innocents]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()