SCHOOL OF MARCO DENTE, CALLED MARCO DA RAVENNA (CIRCA 1486-1527) AFTER GIUSEPPE PORTA, CALLED SALVIATI (CIRCA 1520-1575)

An Assembly of Scholars

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SCHOOL OF MARCO DENTE, CALLED MARCO DA RAVENNA (CIRCA 1486-1527) AFTER GIUSEPPE PORTA, CALLED SALVIATI (CIRCA 1520-1575)
An Assembly of Scholars
engraving, circa 1540-45, on laid paper, watermark He-Goat (similar to Briquet 1862, dated 1544), a very good impression of this rare print, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, generally in very good condition
Sheet 235 x 192 mm.

Provenance

Giancarlo Beltrame (1925-2011), Vicenza; then by descent to the present owners.

Literature

B. XIV. 356. 479

Lot Essay

Bartsch erroneously attributed this composition to Francesco Salviati, when in fact it is based on a woodcut by his pupil Giuseppe Porta, which was first published in 1540. Furthermore, Marco Dente - whose device the print bears - cannot have been the engraver, as he died in 1527. It was presumably engraved by a talented follower or former workshop member of his.

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