Saint Philip
Marco Dente
1651 to 1700
Medium
engraving on laid paper, laid down on old album sheet
Dimensions
sheet: 21 × 13.9 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.) mount: 44 × 28.3 cm (17 5/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2017.155.3
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...