Vulcanus

About this artwork

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Art Historical Context

**Vulcanus** is a delicate engraving by Marco Dente, an Italian active during the Renaissance, created sometime between 1517 and1562. Measuring just 112 mm high by 176 mm wide, intimate print belongs to a series of 10 engravings, likely exploring classical mythology. Dente, known for his skilled reproductive work after masters like Raphael and Giulio Romano, captures the Roman god Vulcan—deity of fire, metalworking, and volcanoes—in a style emblematic of the High Renaissance. These prints were revolutionary for their time, allowing widespread dissemination of sophisticated imagery beyond paint...

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...