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View at the museum ↗Triumph of Caesar
Andrea Andreani1599
- Attribution
- Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629) after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506)
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark greenish gray on off-white laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image/sheet: 38 × 37.4 cm (15 × 14 3/4 in.); Composite approx: 38.5 × 342 cm (15 3/16 × 134 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
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Source rights statement: Public domain
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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.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0