Venus removing a thorn from her left foot while seated on a cloth beside trees and foliage, a hare eating grass before her
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 10 1/2 × 6 7/8 in. (26.7 × 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.275
Tags
AnimalsVenusTrees
About the Artist
Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Giovanni Marco Paluzzi · 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...