The Adoration of the Shepherds

This outstanding engraving was made after D�rer’s woodcut from the series of Life of the Virgin.

Marcantonio Raimondi, from Bologna, was the best copyist of D�rer’s graphic prints in Italy, and worked faster than any other; he was also the most damaging to D�rer’s own business. In all, his workshop produced copies of eight engravings and over 60 woodcuts by the Nuremberg master, and to D�rer’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.