The Risen Christ between Saints Andrew and Longinus
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 11 7/16 in. (32 × 29 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.28
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the late 15th century, Mantegna, a pioneering Italian Renaissance artist from Padua, collaborated with engraver Gian Marco Cavalli create *The Risen Christ between Andrew and Longinus* 1475. This engraving, measuring 12 5/8 × 11 7/16 inches, captures a pivotal Christian scene: the resurrected Christ flanked by Saint Andrew, the apostle associated with the X-shaped cross, and Saintinus, the Roman centurion who pierced Christ's side the Crucifixion and later converted to faith. Such devotional imagery reflected the era's deep religious fervor and the Renaissance revival of classical forms, bl...
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna|Gian Marco Cavalli · 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...