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Andrea Andreani

Triumph of Caesar

1599
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark greenish gray on off-white laid paper
38.3 × 37.7 cm (15.1 × 14.8 in)

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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.

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