Bacchanal with Silenus
Andrea Mantegna
before 1475
Medium
Engraving with drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 in. × 17 1/4 in. (30.5 × 43.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1929
Accession Number
29.44.15
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Musical InstrumentsMale NudesMenSilenusSatyrs
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna · 1431–1506
Andrea Mantegna was born around 1431 near Padua, in the Venetian Republic, the son of a carpenter. At approximately age eleven he was taken into the workshop of the Paduan painter and antiquities collector Francesco Squarcione, who enrolled him as a guild member and immersed him in the study of Roman sculpture and classical Latin. Though Mantegna later claimed that Squarcione had exploited his lab...