The Entombment
Andrea Mantegna
c. 1470/ 1475
Medium
engraving in brown ink on laid paper; laid down
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to and within plate mark): 29.9 x 44.2 cm (11 3/4 x 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1986.98.1
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...