The abduction of Helen; battle scene on a shore with two men pulling Helen into a boat at center and another man pulling on her drapery in the opposite direction
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 9/16 x 16 7/16 in. (29.4 x 41.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.860
Tags
BattlesHelenBoatsMenHorses
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Pietro de' Nobili|Antonio Lafreri · 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...