Triumph of Caesar
Andrea Andreani
1599
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark greenish gray on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 38 × 37.8 cm (15 × 14 15/16 in.); Composite approx: 38.5 × 342 cm (15 3/16 × 134 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- chiaroscuro woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printingprintprints and drawingwoodcut (process)woodcutchiaroscuro woodcutpaper (fiber product)
About
Andrea Andreani’s Triumph of Caesar was available in several color schemes, including gray and orange. Each chiaroscuro sheet included a range of shades of a single hue, one for each tone block, which combined to give the final image a greater sense of depth and the appearance of a drawing. The set of woodcuts was issued with a title page showing Andrea Mantegna’s portrait and with a set of columns (lacking in this impression) to cut out and paste over the seams in the assembled frieze. The columns shown here are to-scale reproductions from the British Museum.
