Sheet 8: Procession of Musicians, from "The Triumph of Julius Caesar"
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in gray-green ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 13/16 × 15 3/16 in. (40.2 × 38.5 cm) Image: 14 7/16 × 14 9/16 in. (36.7 × 37 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.73.3-96
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About this artwork
This chiaroscuro woodcut depicts a procession of musicians from "The Triumph of Julius Caesar," created by Andrea Andreani in 1599 after Andrea Mantegna's paintings. The print shows figures carrying musical instruments and ceremonial objects in a triumphal procession, rendered with multiple woodblocks to create tonal gradations. The composition reproduces one panel from Mantegna's famous series of nine paintings depicting Caesar's triumph, created between 1484 and 1492 for the Gonzaga Ducal Pala...