Virgin and Child
Andrea Mantegna
1485/91
Medium
Engraving in black on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Image before remargining: 22.8 × 23.5 cm (9 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 25 cm (10 7/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
15499
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...