Study for the Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. I
Andrea Mantegna
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with red pencil, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
27.6 × 28.1 cm (10 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82064
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...