Triomf van Caesar

About this artwork

Prent gebaseerd op ontwerpen voor een Triomf van Caesar door Andrea Mantegna. Van Mantegna's triomf zijn negen cartons bekend van welke de voorstellingen niet geheel overeenkomen met de serie prenten. Deze scène komt op geen van de cartons voor. Waarschijnlijk beschikten de graveurs over de tekeningen met studies in de fase voordat Mantegna een besluit had genomen over de definitieve vorm (zie documentatie).

Art Historical Context

Behold *Triomf van Caesar* (Triumph of Caesar), an exquisite engraving by Andrea Mantegna, created between 1486 and 1492. Measuring 287 mm high by 267 mm wide, print captures the Renaissance master's fascination with ancient Roman grandeur. Mantegna, a pioneering Italian artist from the early Renaissance, drew inspiration from classical texts describing Julius Caesar's victorious procession after his Gallic campaigns. Commissioned by the powerful Gonzaga family of Mantua, where Mantegna served as court painter, the work reflects the era's humanist revival of antiquity, blending historical narr...

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...