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Andrea Mantegna, artist
Italian, 1431 - 1506
Battle of the Sea Gods, ca. 1485
engraving
30.5 x 41.2 cm
Gift of Michael G. Berolzheimer in memory of Michael Berolzheimer 1998.201.7

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Artist Biography: Painter and engraver. Worked in Padua, Verona, and from about 1560 for the Gonzaga Court at Mantua. In Rome ca. 1480 working for Pope Innocent VIII. First fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi (Wedding Chamber; 1474), the painted room in the Palazzo Ducale, in which he developed a self-consistent illusion of a total environment.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre-graveur. vol. 13. W¸rzburg: 1920.~Zucker, Mark. Early Italian Masters. The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 25. New York: 1980, Abaris Books.~Zucker, Mark. Early Italian Masters. The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 25, Commentary. New York: 1984, Abaris Books.~Hind, Arthur. Early Italian Engravings. Vol. V. London: 1938-48.~

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