A group of men at right pushing philosophers toward a fire with burning books at the left
Marco Dente
ca. 1515–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 2 5/8 × 3 9/16 in. (6.6 × 9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.16-23
Tags
BooksMenFirePhilosophers
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...