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.
Accession Number
154369
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark greenish gray on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet: 38.3 × 37 cm (15 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Composite approx: 38.5 × 342 cm (15 3/16 × 134 11/16 in.)
Classification
chiaroscuro woodcut
Credit Line
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club