Sheet 3: Trophies of War, from "The Triumph of Julius Caesar"
Medium
Hand-colored woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 14 13/16 in. (38 × 37.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.73.3-7
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Sheet 3: T of War*, the third in a celebrated series of nine chiaroscuro woodcuts *The Triumph of Julius Caesar*, in 1599 by master printmaker Andrea Andreani after designs by Renaissance genius Andrea Mantegna, with involvement from Bernardo Malpizzi This hand-colored woodcut, measuring 15 inches square, captures the grandeur of ancient Rome's victory parades, drawing from Mantegna's monumental painted cycle created around 1482–1505 for the Gonzaga family in Mantua. Depicting captured weapons, shields, and standards piled high as symbols of conquest, the sheet teems with muscular men...