About this artwork
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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Andrea Andreani
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Title
- Triumph of Caesar
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1599
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Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark warm gray on off-white laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image/sheet: 38 × 37.8 cm (15 × 14 15/16 in.); Composite approx: 38.5 × 342 cm (15 3/16 × 134 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
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Reference Number
- 1926.452.5
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/154372/manifest.json