Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Bas-Relief with Three Cupids
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/8 x 18 11/16 in. (31.5 x 47.5 cm) plate: 7 1/2 x 14 in. (19 x 35.5 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(2.144)
Tags
CupidDragons
About the Artist
Marco Dente|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...