The Entombment of Christ
Andrea Mantegna|Simone Ardizzoni
ca. 1470–1500
Medium
Engraving (copy)
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 16 15/16 × 13 11/16 in. (43 × 34.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.92.3
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna|Simone Ardizzoni · 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...