Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Ancient bas-reliefs with Laocoon
Marco Dente
ca. 1516–20 (?)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 10 13/16 x 15 5/16 in. (27.4 x 38.9 cm) mount: 12 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. (32.7 x 42.8 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(2.80)
Tags
BuildingsMale NudesSnakesShipsRome
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...