Andrea Andreani

Background

Andrea was born in Mantua in about 1540.

Career

Andreani was active in Florence (1584–85), in Siena (1586–93), and in Mantua (1599).

Between 1602 and 1610 he appears in contemporary documents as a publisher of prints that were not of his own design.

All of Andreani’s known woodcuts, in fact, are after the paintings of other artists, especially the 15th-century Mannerists Giambologna and Domenico Beccafumi and the Venetian painter Jacopo Ligozzi. The best known of Andreani’s works are 12 large woodcuts representing the “Trionfo di Giulio Cesare” (“Triumph of Julius Caesar”) and a series of prints reproducing nine sequential canvases by Andrea Mantegna. The several sections of this work were intended to be pasted together or mounted as a single frieze; each print has an individual character yet fits into its place in the unified whole.

Achievements

• Andrea Andreani was an Italian printmaker known especially for his chiaroscuro printing, a technique developed in the early 16th century to facilitate shading. In this technique, several woodblocks are used for the same print, each block engraved to produce a different tone of the same colour.

Works

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  • Art Print "Sheet 1" | Artist: Andrea Andreani| Created: 1599 | Antique Vintage Fine Art Poster Reproduction

    ( Sheet 1: Roman soldiers carrying banners depicting the ...)

  • Art Print "Sheet 1" | Artist: Andrea Andreani| Created: 1599 | Antique Vintage Fine Art Poster Reproduction

    ( Sheet 1: Soldiers carrying banners depicting Julius Cae...)

  • Art Print "Sheet 6: Men carrying trophies, from The Triumph of Julius Caesar" | Artist: Andrea Andreani| Created: 1599 | Antique Vintage Fine Art Poster Reproduction

    ( Sheet 6: Men carrying trophies, from The Triumph of Jul...)

  • Art Print "Christ is being led away, soldiers stand at the right (right side of sheet)" | Artist: Andrea Andreani| Created: 1585 | Antique Vintage Fine Art Poster Reproduction

    ( Christ is being led away, soldiers stand at the right (...)

  • Art Print Rape of a Sabine Woman | Artist: Andrea Andreani| Created: 1584 | Antique Vintage Fine Art Poster Reproduction

    ( Rape of a Sabine Woman | Mantua, 1558/1559-1629|Netherl...)

  • Classic Art Poster - Christian heroes, Andrea Andreani, 1610 9" x 13"
  • Classic Art Poster - Virtue contrary to the Ignorance, the Error and Bias, Andrea Andreani, 1585 - 1595 11" x 14"

References

• Dizionario degli architetti Vol: '1-2 1830 Hardcover