Massacre of the Innocents
by BANDINELLI, Baccio, Engraving
Returning to Rome in mid-1519, Bandinelli was drawn by papal patronage into the circle of Raphael and designed a large and complex Massacre of the Innocents to be engraved (c. 1520-21) by Marco Dente: its debt to Marcantonio Raimondi’s engraving of the same subject after Raphael has always been acknowledged, but it did much to enhance Baccio’s reputation internationally.