A lion, dragon and fox fighting each other, an inscribed banderole above, an oval composition
Marco Dente|Antonio Salamanca
ca. 1515–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed to plate): 4 3/4 × 6 9/16 in. (12 × 16.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.217
Tags
LionsDragonsFoxesFlags
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Antonio Salamanca · 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...