Triumph of Caesar

Description

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.

Triumph of Caesar

Andrea Andreani

1599

Accession Number

154372

Medium

Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark warm gray on off-white laid paper

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.)

Classification

chiaroscuro woodcut

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Print and Drawing Club