The Abduction of Helen; battle scene on shore with two men pulling Helen into a boat at center
ca. 1515–27, published by Rossi in 1649
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 3/8 in. (31.1 × 44.1 cm) Plate: 11 3/4 × 16 15/16 in. (29.8 × 43 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1929
Accession Number
29.49.35
Tags
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · 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...