A lion, dragon and fox fighting each other, an inscribed banderole above, an oval composition
Marco Dente
ca. 1515–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed to plate): 4 15/16 × 6 3/4 in. (12.6 × 17.2 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(142)
Tags
LionsDragonsFoxes
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...