Bacchanal with Wine Vat
ca. 1475
Medium
Engraving (late, re-worked impression)
Dimensions
plate: 12 3/4 x 17 13/16 in. (32.4 x 45.2 cm) sheet: 13 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (33.3 x 46 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
Accession Number
24.8.3
Tags
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...