Maria met kind omgeven door engelen in grot met Jozef en koning in aanbidding

About this artwork

Kopie naar het middenpaneel van een triptiek van Andrea Mantegna met een Aanbidding door de drie koningen (zogenaamde Uffizi triptiek, collectie Uffizi, Florence). De graveur heeft een opvallende uitsnede genomen met slechts één koning. Dit is de enige prent uit de School van Mantegna waarbij een letterlijke overname zichtbaar is.

Art Historical Context

This striking engraving, titled *Maria met kind omgeven engelen in grot metef en koning in aanbidding* (Mary with Child Surrounded by Angels in Cave with Joseph and a in Adoration), is a 15th-century copy after Andrea Mantegna's panel of the *Uffizi Triptych* (c. 1475–1480), housed in Florence's Uffizi Gallery Created as an engraving measuring 386 × 280 mm, it captures a intimate moment from the Adoration of the Magi, zooming in dramatically on the Virgin and Child amid angels, with Joseph and a single kneeling king. Mantegna, a master of the Early Italian Renaissance from Padua, was renowned ...

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...