The Battle of the Sea Gods (left portion of frieze)
Andrea Mantegna
before 1481
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 15/16 in. (28.5 × 43 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.12
Tags
Mythical CreaturesFishSeahorsesBattles
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...