Battle of the Sea Gods
Andrea Mantegna
1485 - 1488
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
276; 411
About this artwork
Gevecht tussen satyrs rijdend op hippocampussen en oude vrouw als personificatie van afgunst staand op rug van draak. De vrouw houdt een bordje vast met de tekst INVID (Afgunst). Op een sokkel staat Neptunus met een dolfijn en drietand.
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...