Assembly of male and female scholars gathered around an open book, in the middle ground a man holds aloft an armillary sphere, another group of scholars in the background

Assembly of male and female scholars gathered around an open book, in the middle ground a man holds aloft an armillary sphere, another group of scholars in the background by Marco Dente|Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 8 11/16 × 6 7/8 in. (22 × 17.4 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917

Accession Number

17.50.16-105

Tags

BooksMenWomenReading

About the Artist

Marco Dente|Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) · 15151527

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...

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