Saint Paul looking to the right and holding a sword and a book
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 3/8 × 5 9/16 in. (21.3 × 14.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.12(45)R
Tags
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Antonio Salamanca|Marcantonio Raimondi|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...