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Bacchanale à la cuve

Before 1475
Not on view
C’est sur la planche à graver qu’Andrea Mantegna, grand artiste de la Renaissance, produisit ses compositions les plus célèbres. Datés des années 1470, Bacchanale à la cuve, dont le style évoque la frise, et son pendant, Bacchanale au Silène, sont inspirés de motifs décorant des sarcophages romains. Pour la Bacchanale à la cuve, Mantegna a superposé des hachures en diagonale et en zigzag, et même des touches de quadrillage, afin d’obtenir de riches effets de dégradé encore jamais vus dans le monde de la gravure italienne. Grâce à cette technique qui combine habilement les jeux d’ombres et une infinie variation de largeurs et de profondeurs de traits, il est parvenu à imiter avec brio les dessins à la plume de son époque.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Titre: Bacchanale à la cuve
  • Artiste: Andrea Mantegna, Italien, v. 1430/1431–1506
  • Date: v. 1475
  • Technique: Gravure
  • Dimensions: 29,8 x 43,8 cm
  • Crédits: Achat, fonds Rogers ; don : The Charles Engelhard Foundation, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, et The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1986
  • Accession Number: 1986.1159
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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