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Marco Dente
Allegory of Death and Fame ("The Skeletons")1518-25

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Engraving on cream paper depicting a dense crowd of nude figures and skeletons in a rocky cave-like setting, with a winged skeleton at center rendered in precise cross-hatched lines

Marco Dente, Baccio Bandinelli, The Skeletons, 1518-25, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Marco Dente
Italy, Ravenna, c. 1486 - 1527
After
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo Rosso, called Rosso Fiorentino
Italian, Florence, 1494 - 1540
Title
Allegory of Death and Fame ("The Skeletons")
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1518-25
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
a) Sheet: 11 3/8 x 17 1/8 in. (28.89 x 43.5 cm); b) Sheet: 13 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (34.93 x 50.17 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.20a-b
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
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.