Battle of the Sea-Gods (right portion of frieze)
Andrea Mantegna
ca. 1485–88
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 5/8 × 15 1/2 in. (29.5 × 39.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.88.1
Tags
Mythical CreaturesBattlesFemale Nudes
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...