Bacchanal with a Wine Vat, Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1470–90

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Bacchanal with a Wine Vat, ca. 1470–90, Engraving and drypoint, Sheet: 11 3/4 x 17 3/16in. ( x ), Prints, Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua), Throughout his life, Mantegna was fascinated with classical antiquity. In the middle of the sixteenth century, the biographer Giorgio Vasari, was the first of many to note how Mantegna's work in two dimensions possessed a sculptural quality, writing that 'Andrea was ever of the opinion that the good ancient statues were more perfect and had greater beauty in their various parts than is shown by nature

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