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Andrea Mantegna

Battle of the Sea Gods [left half], before 1481

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.4 × 43.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.9085

Artists / Makers

Andrea Mantegna (artist) Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

Image Use

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Exhibition History

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 17.

Bibliography

1938: Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973: Levenson et al. 1973, no.75 (b).

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1996: 108-109.

2017: Simons, Patricia. "Mantegna's Battle of the Sea Gods: The material and thematic interaction between print and sculpture." InPrints in Translation, 1450-1750: Image, Materiality, Space, edited by Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Edward H. Wouk. Oxon and New York, 2017: 89-113, fig. 6.1a.

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