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The Descent into Limbo by 
																	Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

( Italian, 1431 - 1506 )

The Descent into Limbo

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Materials:

engraving

Size Notes:

415 x 322 mm.

Description:

or LOG IN

Exhibited:

Royal Castle, Warsaw, Opus Sacrum, 1990, no. 11.The Royal Academy of Arts, London, Andrea Mantegna, 1992, no. 67a.Royal Castle, Warsaw, The Masters of Drawing. Drawings from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, 2010 - 2011, p. 110.

Literature:

A. M. Hind, Early Italian Engravings, Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London, 1948, no. 9 (another impression illustrated).J. A. Levenson, K. Oberhuber & J. L. Sheenan, Early Italian Engravings, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1973, n. 80 (another impression illustrated).D. Landau, S. Boorsch, J. Martineau (ed.), Andrea Mantegna, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (exh. cat.), 1992, no. 67a (this impression illustrated).R. Signorini, 'New Findings about Andrea Mantegna: His Son Ludovico's Post-mortem Inventory (1510)', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LIX, 1996, p. 103-338.S. Fletcher, 'A Closer Look at Mantegna's Prints', Print Quarterly, XVII, No. 1, 2001, p. 3-41.

Provenance:

With Colnaghi & Co., London (their stocknumber C. 7533 in pencil verso).With David Tunick, New York.Acquired from the above in 1989.

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