Roman Senators and Soldiers
Andrea Mantegna
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
29.7 × 21.1 cm (11 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82223
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...