Mantegna at Eremitani
Date1952
Artist
Leonard Baskin
(American sculptor and printmaker, 1922–2000)
MediumWoodcut
Dimensionscomposition: 14 1/8 × 23 5/16 in. (35.9 × 59.2 cm)
sheet: 23 1/16 × 32 3/16 in. (58.6 × 81.8 cm)
sheet: 23 1/16 × 32 3/16 in. (58.6 × 81.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009
Object number2009-26
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextDuring World War II, American bombs destroyed Andrea Mantegna's (1431–1506) fresco at the Church of the Eremitani in Padua, Italy. The church was next to a building used as a Nazi headquarters.
