Bacchanal with a Wine Vat — About This Work
Andrea Mantegna, 1470–80
About the Work
Twelve figures populate the engraved scene around a large wooden vat. Bacchus appears crowned and composed while the people surrounding him struggle with intoxication.
Mantegna was an early Italian practitioner of engraving. Cleveland notes the work’s shallow stage-like arrangement, which recalls Roman sarcophagus reliefs, and the technical irregularities possible in early engraved impressions.
The sheet measures 30 × 43.8 cm, and the canonical 40 × 50 cm landscape frame preserves that recorded size without enlarging the print.
The Work
Artist: Andrea Mantegna
Title: Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
Date: 1470–80
Medium: Engraving
Recorded dimensions: 43.8 × 30 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1926.260
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 50 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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