Triomf van Caesar
Andrea Mantegna
1486 - 1492
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
260; 287
About this artwork
blad: hoogte 287 mm x breedte 260 mm
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...