Triumph of Caesar
1599
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark greenish gray on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 38 × 37.8 cm (15 × 14 15/16 in.); Composite approx: 38.5 × 342 cm (15 3/16 × 134 11/16 in.)
Classification
chiaroscuro woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
154373
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Andrea Andreani’s Triumph of Caesar was available in several color schemes, including gray and orange. Each chiaroscuro sheet included a range of shades of a single hue, one for each tone block, which combined to give the final image a greater sense of depth and the appearance of a drawing. The set of woodcuts was issued with a title page showing Andrea Mantegna’s portrait and with a set of columns (lacking in this impression) to cut out and paste over the seams in the assembled frieze. The colu...