© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Andrea Mantegna (printmaker)
Battle of the Sea Gods
c. 1470 – c. 1500
Engraving
299 x 427 mm and 298 x 425 mm
WA1863.1639 and WA1863.1640
https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/291882 and https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/291881

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Christiansen, Keith. The Genius of Andrea Mantegna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. pp. 47 – 63. Digitised on the Metropolitan Museum Website. 

Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print: 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Chapter III, “The Development of a Tonal System” and “The Market.” Digitised on SOLO.

Lincoln, Evelyn. The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. See Chapter 2 for the development of the chiaroscuro woodcut in Italy. Digitised on SOLO.

Oberhuber, Konrad. “Mantegna and the Role of Prints: A Prototype for Artistic Innovation in the North and the South.” In Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Titan and Durer. Edited by Bernard Aikema, Beverly Louis Brown. Milan: Biompiani, 1999. Click here to access.

Simons, Patricia. “Mantegna’s Battle of the Sea Gods: the material and thematic interaction of print and sculpture.” In Prints in Translation, 1450 – 1750: Image, Materiality, Space. Edited by Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Edward H Wouk. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017: 89 – 113. Digitised on SOLO.

 

FURTHER READING

Boorsch, Suzanne and David Landau. “Mantegna and Prints.” The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1089 (1993): 826 – 828. Response to Christiansen article below. Digitised on JSTOR.

Christiansen, Keith. “The Case for Mantegna as Printmaker.” The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1086 (1993): 604 – 612. Digitised on JSTOR.

Emison, Patricia Anne. “Invention and the Italian Renaissance print, Mantegna to Parmigianino.” PhD Thesis: Columbia University, 1985. Chapter 1, “Andrea Mantegna as Print Engraver.” Digitised on SOLO.

Fletcher, Shelly. “A Closer Look at Mantegna’s Prints.” Print Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2001): 3 – 41. Digitised on JSTOR.

Flowler, Caroline O. ” ‘Res Papirea’: Mantegna’s Paper Things.” The Art Bulletin 99, no. 1 (2017): 8 – 35. Digitised on JSTOR.