Battle of the Sea Gods [left half]
before 1481
Artist, Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506
Andrea Mantegna
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 30.4 × 43.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.9085
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.15, no. 5, State only
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1933
A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 51.
1943
Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 34-35, repro.
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 17.
1956
Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.
1959
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.
1971
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 44, repro.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 106-107, repro.
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." In_Prints 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.
Watermarks
‘N’ or Butterfly in a Circle
Wikidata ID
Q64952839