Four classical figures (pagan sacrifice)
Medium
Etching, only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 in. × 7 1/4 in. (20.3 × 18.4 cm) Cut within platemark and into image at sides and bottom
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.18-133
Tags
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna|Wenceslaus Hollar · 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...