A faun standing in a niche holding aloft a bunch of grapes with his right hand and fruit with his left hand, a dog lower right
Marco Dente
ca. 1515–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 8 11/16 × 4 1/4 in. (22 × 10.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.50.1(75)
Tags
FruitGrapesFaunsDogs
About the Artist
Marco Dente · 1515–1527
Marco Dente (died 1527), also known as Marco da Ravenna, was among the most accomplished printmakers working in Rome during the High Renaissance, a period that witnessed an extraordinary flowering of engraving as both a reproductive and an independent artistic medium. Little is known of his early training, but by the second decade of the sixteenth century he had established himself in the orbit of...