Battle with a Cutlass
Marco Dente|Giulio Romano
ca. 1515–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 12 11/16 x 18 1/16 in. (32.2 x 45.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.19-124
Tags
HorsesBattlesWeaponsCorpsesMen
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Giulio Romano · 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...