Triumph of Julius Caesar
Andrea Mantegna
Possibly late 15th or 16th century
Medium
Engraving with pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 10 5/16 in. (24.5 × 26.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.189
Tags
Julius CaesarMale NudesCowsElephants
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...