The Judgment of Paris
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 1/4 × 16 3/4 in. (28.6 × 42.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Accession Number
17.37.157
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *The Judgment of Paris*, masterful engraving from the High Renaissance era (1515–27), now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. This iconic scene draws from classical mythology, where the Trojan prince Paris must choose the fairest goddess among Hera, Athena, and Aphroditeoffering an apple that sparks the Trojan War. Designed by the unparalleled Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), it was meticulously engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi and Marco Dente, capturing Raphael's graceful idealism and anatomical precision in dynamic figures, including striking male and...
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...