Dish with battle scene
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 2 1/4 × 16 5/16 in. (5.7 × 41.4 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
Italian, Urbino
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
Accession Number
32.100.369
Tags
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Giulio Romano|Painter of the Coal Mine Service · 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...