Eros Escaping by Sea; Cupid using his bow to propel a boat made from his quiver with an arrow as the mast and his blindfold as the sail, a banderole above
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/16 × 6 13/16 in. (12.9 × 17.3 cm) Plate: 4 15/16 × 6 5/8 in. (12.5 × 16.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.50.1(140)
Tags
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Antonio Salamanca · 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...