Galatea riding in a shell pulled through the water by dolphins, a cupid below and four more above, at left a triton embracing a nymph and behind them a man on horseback blowing a conch, at right a figure blowing a horn and behind him a nymph riding on a centaur

About the Artist

Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 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...