Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506)
Triumph of Caesar
INV-1543
Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506)1599
Triumph of Caesar
Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629) after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506) →chiaroscuro woodcutwoodcut
Date
1599
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black, light and medium brownish gray and dark gray on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet: 38.3 × 37.2 cm (15 1/8 × 14 11/16 in.); Composite approx: 38.5 × 342 cm (15 3/16 × 134 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
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 columns shown here are to-scale reproductions from the British Museum.
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