Saint Christopher
Andrea Mantegna (Italian, about 1431–1506) · c. 1500 · pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache
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About this picture
Saint Christopher is a CC0 drawing by Andrea Mantegna (Italian, about 1431–1506), dated c. 1500. Pen and brown ink and blue gouache with brush and green wash and traces of orange gouache, heightened with white gouache. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Saint Christopher” (c. 1500) is drawn with Mantegna’s hard contour. A print with his name may be his own engraving or a later one after a painting.
About the artist
Andrea Mantegna (about 1431–1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter and engraver. The drawing is hard and sculptural, and the settings often use classical ruins.
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