Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: A Triton Carrying off a Nymph
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (11.4 x 17.4 cm) trimmed to platemark mount: 17 5/16 x 10 5/8 in. (44 x 27 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941
Accession Number
41.72(2.151)
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...