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, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/text: 34.5 × 37 cm (13 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 37.6 × 39.3 cm (14 13/16 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- chiaroscuro woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingwoodcutchiaroscuro woodcutpaper (fiber product)
About
Andrea Mantegna painted The Triumphs of Julius Caesar between 1484 and 1494 for the Gonzaga palace in Mantua. They were copied in a series of grisaille paintings by Francesco Malpizzi. In 1599, Andrea Andreani made a complete set of chiaroscuro woodcuts after these grisailles.
