Grotesque with male figure with lower body and head of acanthus scrolls
Marco Dente
ca. 1515–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 1/4 in. (35.2 × 23.5 cm) Plate: 8 3/8 × 5 7/16 in. (21.2 × 13.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.58.5(137)
Tags
GrotesquesOrnament
About the Artist
Marco Dente · 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...