Virtus Deserta

Andrea Mantegna

1490 - 1499

Virtus Deserta by Andrea Mantegna

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

413; 280

About this artwork

blad: hoogte 280 mm x breedte 413 mm

About the Artist

Andrea Mantegna · 14311506

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...

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