, by Pierre Michel; subsequently with C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 2014. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early Italian Renaissance engraving. Mantegna (1431-1506) likely based this scene, the left half of a 2 part horizontal composition created on separate plates, on an antique Roman relief, possibly a relief fragment in the Villa Medici, Rome, which appears to have been well known by Italian Renaissance artists. As Levenson, Oberhuber and Sheehan note, "The Battle probably represents a Renaissance invenzione based on classical ideals . . . The subject centers around an emaciated woman holding the tablet at the left, who clearly represents the vice of Envy, a theme in which Mantegna seems to have been quite interested," ( Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C., 1973, pages 188 and 192). Another basis for the idea of the scene could be the famous description of a storm at sea at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid (like Mantegna, Virgil was also a native of Mantua). Bartsch 18; Hind 5.
, by Pierre Michel; subsequently with C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 2014. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early Italian Renaissance engraving. Mantegna (1431-1506) likely based this scene, the left half of a 2 part horizontal composition created on separate plates, on an antique Roman relief, possibly a relief fragment in the Villa Medici, Rome, which appears to have been well known by Italian Renaissance artists. As Levenson, Oberhuber and Sheehan note, "The Battle probably represents a Renaissance invenzione based on classical ideals . . . The subject centers around an emaciated woman holding the tablet at the left, who clearly represents the vice of Envy, a theme in which Mantegna seems to have been quite interested," ( Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C., 1973, pages 188 and 192). Another basis for the idea of the scene could be the famous description of a storm at sea at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid (like Mantegna, Virgil was also a native of Mantua). Bartsch 18; Hind 5.
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