Bacchanal with a Wine Vat

Prints and Drawings

c. 1470

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna
Italian, 1431-1506

Andrea Mantegna was an artist with a deep interest in antiquity, and much of his work resembled Greco-Roman sculpture, which he translated into widely circulating and frequently copied engravings. This is the left half of a pair of prints; the adjoining print Bacchanal with Silenos (1956.1010) is also in the Art Institute’s collection. Mantegna’s frieze-shaped bacchanalian subjects portray the god of wine and his drunken revelers. Dionysos may be the standing youth on the left, who is being crowned with a wreath of grape leaves. His noble bearing and contrapposto stance link him particularly to ancient sculptures.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Andrea Mantegna
Title: Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1465–1475
Medium: Engraving on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 31.2 × 45 cm (12 5/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
Reference Number: 1956.1011
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Hind V.13.4

Bartsch, illustrated 2506.006

Bartsch XIII.240.19

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