Battle of Sea-Gods, Left Half of a Frieze
Andrea Mantegna
1470/1500
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, discolored to grayish brown
Dimensions
28.3 × 41.5 cm (11 3/16 × 16 3/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4285
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...