Triumph of Caesar
Andrea Andreani
1599
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light medium and dark greenish gray on off-white laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/text: 34.5 × 37 cm (13 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 37.6 × 39.3 cm (14 13/16 × 15 1/2 in.)
Classification
chiaroscuro woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28679
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Andrea Mantegna painted The Triumphs of Julius Caesar between 1484 and 1494 for the Gonzaga palace in Mantua. They were copied in a series of grisaille paintings by Francesco Malpizzi. In 1599, Andrea Andreani made a complete set of chiaroscuro woodcuts after these grisailles.