The entombment

Andrea Mantegna
Italy
1430-31 – 1506

The entombment
early 1470s
engraving on paper
Place made
Mantua, Italy
Medium
engraving on paper
Dimensions
22.7 x 39.6 cm (trimmed within platemark)
Credit line
Bequest of David Murray 1908
Accession number
084G1562
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Provenance
David Murray (1829 - 1907), Adelaide
Catalogue raisonne
B. XIII. 229. 3; Hind (1948) V.10.2; Washington (1973) p.170, no. 70 iv/iv; Landau in Martineau (1992) p. 202, no. 39, ii/ii
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    Andrea Mantegna was the first Italian artist to fully exploit the expressive power of engraving. He may have been taught the new technique in Florence on a visit in 1466. His complex, multi-figure compositions of religious and mythological subjects were ambitious and technically brilliant. The entombment is one of seven engravings attributed to the artist.  The composition reflects Mantegna’s deep assimilation of antique art with the figures arranged in close proximity to one another and in shallow relief, as in a classical sarcophagus.

     

    Mantegna lived in Padua from around 1440 to 1460. In 1460 he was invited by the humanist-trained Ludovico Gonzaga to become court painter in Mantua, where he served for almost half a century.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 11 March 1983 – 15 May 1983

  • Impressioni Italiane: Etchings, Engravings & Woodcuts from the Renaissance to the Rococo

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 2 November 1991 – 2 February 1992

  • Master Prints and Drawings from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 25 February 1978 – 27 March 1978

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010