Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. I
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper, pieced and prepared with yellow wash
Dimensions
37.1 × 37.3 cm (14 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82225
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...