The Battle of the Sea Gods (left portion of frieze)
Andrea Mantegna
before 1481
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 15/16 in. (28.5 × 43 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.12
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Mythical CreaturesFishSeahorsesBattles
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...