Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: The Three Graces
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 18 1/2 x 13 3/16 in. (47 x 33.5 cm) plate: 14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in. (36 x 25 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(2.71)
Tags
About the Artist
Marco Dente|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...