A Roman Legion
Marco Dente
1515/1527
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.5 x 37.9 cm (11 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.) sheet: 30.1 x 38 cm (11 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2009.118.1
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...