The Calumny of Apelles
1500/1506
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
31.8 × 45.7 cm (12 9/16 × 18 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15239
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Although he probably never met Andrea Mantegna, the Venetian painter-engraver Girolamo Mocetto nevertheless based this print on a drawing (now in the British Museum, London) by the older artist. Later, Rembrandt also copied the same drawing, and may have owned it for a time. Mocetto altered the composition by placing the scene, an allegory of calumny (or false accusation), in the Campo de Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, with Andrea del Verrocchio’s famous equestrian monument to Bartolomeo Coll...
About the Artist
Girolamo Mocetto · 1470–1531
Comment on works: Religious