Marco Dente
Entellus and Dares1520-1525

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Print Culture: After Raphael

Artist or Maker: Marco Dente
Italy, Ravenna, c. 1486 - 1527
Title: Entellus and Dares
Place Made: Italy
Date Made: 1520-1525
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (31.12 × 27.31 cm) Image: 12 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (30.8 × 26.99 cm)
Credit Line: Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number: M.88.91.19
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Prints and Drawings
Curatorial Notes: This engraving depicts a story from the poet Virgil’s Aeneid in which the Trojan hero Entellus fights the young boxer Dares. In the background rises a ruined amphitheater, probably the Roman Colosseum. The print’s composition is a pastiche of at least two drawings after antique sources: the Colosseum is related to a drawing in the Codex Escurialensis, a Renaissance sketchbook of designs after ancient buildings that may share a common source with Raphael’s sketches, and the figures likely derive from a drawing by Giulio Romano, after antique Roman sculptural reliefs. Printmakers like Marco Dente used drawings from collaborators in Raphael’s workshop to create designs that built upon the harmony of classical motifs.

Claire Spadafora Baes

2024
Selected Bibliography: Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.
Davis, Bruce. Mannerist Prints: International Style in the Sixteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Print Culture: After Raphael

Artist or Maker: Marco Dente
Italy, Ravenna, c. 1486 - 1527
Title: Entellus and Dares
Place Made: Italy
Date Made: 1520-1525
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (31.12 × 27.31 cm) Image: 12 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (30.8 × 26.99 cm)
Credit Line: Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number: M.88.91.19
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Prints and Drawings
Curatorial Notes: This engraving depicts a story from the poet Virgil’s Aeneid in which the Trojan hero Entellus fights the young boxer Dares. In the background rises a ruined amphitheater, probably the Roman Colosseum. The print’s composition is a pastiche of at least two drawings after antique sources: the Colosseum is related to a drawing in the Codex Escurialensis, a Renaissance sketchbook of designs after ancient buildings that may share a common source with Raphael’s sketches, and the figures likely derive from a drawing by Giulio Romano, after antique Roman sculptural reliefs. Printmakers like Marco Dente used drawings from collaborators in Raphael’s workshop to create designs that built upon the harmony of classical motifs.

Claire Spadafora Baes

2024
Selected Bibliography: Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.
Davis, Bruce. Mannerist Prints: International Style in the Sixteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.