Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. VI
Andrea Mantegna
18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash
Dimensions
37 × 37 cm (14 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
95690
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...