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Artists›Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

1431–1506

WA-00014596

Padua, Italy

PaintingRenaissance

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

122

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Publications Referenced

90%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ5681

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1966–1967

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Italian Masters

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1940

Field Verification (1 fields)

0 cross-verified · 1 single-source

NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (1)

Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.

Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 40% · Updated 2mo ago

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Movement

Renaissance

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (75)

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. VI

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash

37 × 37 cm (14 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. II

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash

37.2 × 38 cm (14 11/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. VII

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash

37 × 37.3 cm (14 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. V

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash

37.1 × 37.7 cm (14 5/8 × 14 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. IV

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper, pieced and prepared with yellow wash

37.3 × 36.7 cm (14 11/16 × 14 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. VII

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash

37 × 37.2 cm (14 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. IX

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with yellow wash

37.2 × 37.7 cm (14 11/16 × 14 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. I

1700 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on cream laid paper, pieced and prepared with yellow wash

37.1 × 37.3 cm (14 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist

1500 · Pen and brown ink, brush and greenish gray and brown wash, gray wash applied to the background, probably by a later hand.

10 5/8 x 10 1/4 in. (27 x 26 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Adoration of the Magi (Virgin of the Grotto)

1495 · Engraving on paper

37.8 × 28 cm (14 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen

1495 · Distemper on canvas

22 1/2 x 18 in. (57.2 x 45.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen

1495 · Distemper on canvas

22 1/2 x 18 in. (57.2 x 45.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Elephants, from The Triumph of Julius Caesar

1493 · Engraving on paper

27.7 × 26.1 cm (10 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Four Women Dancing

1492 · Engraving on paper

23.8 × 33.6 cm (9 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Senators, from Triumph of Caesar

1490 · Engraving in black on cream laid paper

Plate/sheet: 28.5 × 26.8 cm (11 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for the Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. I

1490 · Pen and brown ink, with red pencil, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

27.6 × 28.1 cm (10 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triumph of Caesar: Soldiers Carrying Trophies

1490 · Engraving on paper

28.4 × 25.5 cm (11 3/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Rodolfo Gonzaga (1451–1495)

1490 · Tempera on wood

4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (10.8 x 8.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Virgin and Child

1485 · engraving on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 27.7 x 23.1 cm (10 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Virgin and Child

1485 · engraving on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 24.1 x 20.5 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Triumph of Caesar: Soldiers carrying Trophies

1485 · Engraving

Height: 11 7/16 in. (29 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Entombment

1485 · Engraving on paper

49.5 × 37.1 cm (19 1/2 × 14 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Virgin and Child

1485 · Engraving in black on buff laid paper

Image before remargining: 22.8 × 23.5 cm (9 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 25 cm (10 7/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Seated Man Holding a Club or Other Implement (recto); Two Heads of Grotesque Men in Profile (verso)

1484 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

8 1/4 x 5 9/16in. (21 x 14.2cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (4)

75 published of 75 catalogued · 54 with image

Art Institute Chicago
29 published29 img
The Met
28 published7 img
Nga
15 published15 img
Rijksmuseum
3 published3 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources

Zittende Maria met kind
1465 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Bacchanaal met Silenus
1473 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

15 assets

Cleveland Museum of Art

Battle of the Sea Gods - right portion (c. 1485–88)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Risen Christ between St Andrew and Longinus (early 1470's)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

Risen Christ Between Saints Andrew and Longinus (c. 1472)

Art Institute of Chicago

Battle of the Sea Gods: Right Half of a Frieze (1470/1500)

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

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Relationships

Movements1

Renaissance

Collections4

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

National Gallery of Art

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

New York · 1966

Group Exhibition Italian Masters

New York · 1940