Hercules worstelt met Antaeus
Andrea Mantegna
1500 - 1550
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
163; 252
About this artwork
De stijl en het onderwerp van de prent kunnen in verband gebracht worden met het fresco van Andrea Mantegna in de Camera della Sposi (zie documentatie). De prent is waarschijnlijk door iemand vervaardigd uit de omgeving van de kunstenaar.
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...