Battle of the Sea Gods: Right Half of a Frieze
Andrea Mantegna
1470/1500
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, discolored to grayish brown
Dimensions
Image/sheet: 28.1 × 39.4 cm (11 1/8 × 15 9/16 in.); Composite approx: 28.3 × 80.9 cm (11 3/16 × 31 7/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4288
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...