Triumph of Caesar: soldiers carrying trophies (pilaster at right)
Medium
Engraving, printed in brown
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 12 7/8 in. (29 × 32.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.100.698
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
BattlesArmorWeaponsMen
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna|Gian Marco Cavalli · 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...