However, the Hopfer family did not hesitate to plagiarize the work of their contemporaries: of Daniel's 230 known prints, 14 are copies of other masters, mainly Mantegna, whilst only a minority of Hieronymus' 82 plates are his original work—no less than 21 are copies of Durer's works, and around 30 others are copies from Jacopo de' Barbari, Raimondi and Altdorfer among others.
They show Italianate influence, especially from the engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi, from whom the figures of Pyramus and Thisbe are directly borrowed.
His first dated engraving, Pyramus and Thisbe, comes from 1505, although a number of undated works come from the years before this.
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About this time he began to make copies of Dürer's woodcut series, the Life of the Virgin.
Depictions in art of Neptune threatening the winds include the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi and paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Simone Cantarini.
Marcantonio Raimondi | Ruggero Raimondi | Raimondi | Vito Marcantonio | Marcantonio Michiel | Marcantonio Franceschini | Marcantonio V Colonna | Gianni Raimondi |
Abaris is renowned for its definitive collections of titles in art history and other subjects, and for its cataloguing of renowned artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Marcantonio Raimondi, Jean Duvet, Wenceslaus Hollar, Antonio Tempesta, The Carraccis, and Caravaggio.