Venus en Amor op dolfijnen
Marco Dente
1498 - 1532
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
170; 260
About this artwork
Venus en Amor zitten bij twee dolfijnen op de rug. Amor heeft een pijl in zijn hand. Boven in de wolken twee windgoden.
About the Artist
Marco Dente · 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...