Workshop of Andrea Mantegna
Italian, 1431-1506
Battle of the Sea Gods: Right Half of a Frieze
INV-4288
Workshop of Andrea Mantegna
Italian, 1431-15061470/1500
Battle of the Sea Gods: Right Half of a Frieze
Workshop of Andrea Mantegna Italian, 1431-1506 →engravingprint
Date
1470/1500
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, discolored to grayish brown
Dimensions
Image/sheet: 28.1 × 39.4 cm (11 1/8 × 15 9/16 in.); Composite approx: 28.3 × 80.9 cm (11 3/16 × 31 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
Andrea Mantegna’s Battle of the Sea Gods may be the first print with a unified composition occupying more than one sheet. Unlike the Andrea Andreani Triumph of Caesar (1926.452.2–9) and the engravings after the same Mantegna paintings by his own workshop, this mythological frieze has only one seam and no disguising columns. Albrecht Dürer drew a copy of the right half of the frieze in 1494, already establishing the seminal importance of the work in the Renaissance.
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