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Workshop of Andrea Mantegna

Descent into Limbo, c. 1475

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Medium

engraving on laid paper (by Gian Marco Cavalli?)

Dimensions

sheet: 44 x 35.3 cm (17 5/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.18, no. 9

Accession Number

1941.1.8

Artists / Makers

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

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Exhibition History

1973: Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 188, repro.

1992: Andrea Mantegna, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, no. 67a,b.

2006: Mantegna e le arti a Verona, 1450-1500, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, 2006-2007 (catalogue by Sergio Marinelli et al.), no. 28.

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.80 (a) (attributed to Zoan Andrea).

2004: Salmazo, Alberta De Nicolò. Andrea Mantegna. Milan, 2004: 183 repro.

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