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Six Corinthian Pilasters

Six Corinthian Pilasters, 1598

  • Andrea Andreani, Italian, 1546-1623
  • Andrea Mantegna, Italian, 1431-1506

Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in black and brown ink on laid paper

  • Image: 15 1/4 × 19 7/8 inches (38.7 × 50.5 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 20 3/8 inches (40 × 51.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund

69.266

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

see inscriptions

Inscribed, on block vertically, center of sheet: IN | MAN | TVA | [artist's monogram] | 1598

1969-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bartsch, Adam von. Le peintre graveur illustré. Vol. XII, Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts. University Park, 1971, no. 101.11.

Andrea Andreani; after Andrea Mantegna, Six Corinthian Pilasters, 1598, chiaroscuro woodcut printed in black and brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, 69.266.

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