Apostel Mattias met speer
Marco Dente
1517 - 1527
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
208; 125
About this artwork
height 208 mm x width 125 mm
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...