Mantegna | Battle of the Sea Gods

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.  

Pollaiuolo | The Battle of the Nudes

Many major museums have a version of the print digitised and catalogued. It’s worth reading some of these short, but highly informative entries. A particularly useful catalogue note can be found on the Cleveland Museum website.  A separate conservation site dedicated to the Cleveland sheet is packed with useful information, and can be accessed by clicking here. In particular, the section titled “Engravings, impressions and states” is a helpful guide for the terminology used by print historians, and for how a print is examined and written about by art historians and conservators today. For a brief introductory video on the work click here.   BIBLIOGRAPHY Landau, David and Peter Parshall. Renaissance Print, 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Chapter III, “The Development of a Tonal System,” pp. 73-74.  Digitised on SOLO. Langdale, Shelley R. Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo’s Renaissance Masterpiece. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003 Lincoln, Evelyn. The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 200: pp. 30 – 31. Digitised on SOLO. Oldzewski, Edward J. “Bring on the Clones: Pollaiuolo’s Battle of Ten Nude Men.” Artibus et Historiae 30, no. 60 (2009): 9 – 38. Digitised on JSTOR.   FURTHER READING Evans, Mark L. “Pollaiuolo, Dürer and the Master IAM van Zwolle.” Print Quarterly 3, no. 2 (1986): 109 – 116. Digitised on JSTOR. Landau, David. “Review: Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo’s Renaissance Masterpiece by Shelley R. Langdale.” Print Quarterly 20, no. 4 (2004): 408 – 412. Digitised on JSTOR. Levenson, Jay A., Konrad Oberhuber, and Jacquelyn L. Sheehan, Early Italian engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington: The National Gallery, 1973. Cat. 13. Print. Spangenberg, Kristin L. Six centuries of master prints: treasures from the Herbert Greer French collection. Cincinnati : Cincinnati Art Museum, 1993. Cat. 16. Print.