Page "Albrecht Dürer" Paragraph 48

His work in engraving seems to have had an intimidating effect upon his German successors, the " Little Masters " who attempted few large engravings but continued Dürer's themes in small, rather cramped compositions.

Lucas van Leyden was the only Northern European engraver to successfully continue to produce large engravings in the first third of the century.

The generation of Italian engravers who trained in the shadow of Dürer all either directly copied parts of his landscape backgrounds ( Giulio Campagnola and Christofano Robetta ), or whole prints ( Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano ).

However, Dürer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn traveled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.