A Triton Carrying Off a Nymph
| Reference: | S36946 |
| Author | Marco DENTE detto "Marco da Ravenna" |
| Year: | 1516 ca. |
| Measures: | 175 x 118 mm |
| Reference: | S36946 |
| Author | Marco DENTE detto "Marco da Ravenna" |
| Year: | 1516 ca. |
| Measures: | 175 x 118 mm |
Description
Engraving, 1516 circa. Second state of two, with publisher's address: 'Ant. Sal. exc.' After a Raphael’s drawing.
Good example, printed on contemporary laid paper, with "hand" watermark, trimmed close to platemark, traces of glue on the verso, fold of paper in the upper part of the image, otherwise very good.
Bartsch attributes this engraving to Marco Dente, while Passavant, in more general terms, considers it produced by the Marcantonio Raimondi school.
The rippling of the waves and the tail of the fish are identical in the Dente’s "Venus and Love on the Dolphins" taken from a scene of 1516 of the Bibbiena stufetta.
Gnann first notes that the engraving reproduces, in reverse, the detail of a study for a decorative plate. In the drawing, preserved at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (P II 572) and certainly by Raphael’s hand, the couple is on the right side of the edge of the plate, reproduced in half. The measures also are the same.
Dente limited himself to concluding the scene on the front, depicting a narrow stretch of shore, and to make minor changes.
The triton and the nymph return in similar forms on another Raphael drawing for another decorative plate, datable to 1509-1510. It is probable, therefore, that the engraving is a few years later.
Literature
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Bartsch XIV.185.229; Höper 2001, no. A 69; Passavant VI.84.78; Roma e lo stile classico di Raffello, p. 97 n. 36
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Marco DENTE detto "Marco da Ravenna" (Ravenna 1496 - Roma 1527)
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The right name of this artist was Marco from Ravenna, not Silvestro as erroneously many people say due to the monogram RS, which has to be interpreted as ravenates sculpsit or sculptor. He came from a rich family of Ravenna, where he was born in 1493; he afterwards died in the Sack of Rome in 1527, as Zani says.
He went to Rome very likely in 1510 to work inside Baviera’s workshop, together with Marcantonio and Agostino Veneziano. In Rome, the artist from Ravenna, besides engraving the most beautuful examples of classical statuary, mainly devouted himself to the reproduction of Raphael’s drawings, as his collegue Raimondi.
Marco can be condidered a very uncommon artist, for he was the first to renew the school of Marcantonio, with “fully pictorial” prints.
Bartsch ascribes to him sixtytwo subjects, while Passavant says are sixtyfour.
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Literature
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Bartsch XIV.185.229; Höper 2001, no. A 69; Passavant VI.84.78; Roma e lo stile classico di Raffello, p. 97 n. 36
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Marco DENTE detto "Marco da Ravenna" (Ravenna 1496 - Roma 1527)
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The right name of this artist was Marco from Ravenna, not Silvestro as erroneously many people say due to the monogram RS, which has to be interpreted as ravenates sculpsit or sculptor. He came from a rich family of Ravenna, where he was born in 1493; he afterwards died in the Sack of Rome in 1527, as Zani says.
He went to Rome very likely in 1510 to work inside Baviera’s workshop, together with Marcantonio and Agostino Veneziano. In Rome, the artist from Ravenna, besides engraving the most beautuful examples of classical statuary, mainly devouted himself to the reproduction of Raphael’s drawings, as his collegue Raimondi.
Marco can be condidered a very uncommon artist, for he was the first to renew the school of Marcantonio, with “fully pictorial” prints.
Bartsch ascribes to him sixtytwo subjects, while Passavant says are sixtyfour.
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