Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)

TERÉZ GERSZI: Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Andrea Mantegna

7 A N D R F A MANTEGNA. AGONY IN THE GARDEN- LONDON, NATIONAL GALLFRY made for a woodcut, which, as the preliminary drawing remained unfinished, was ultimately not executed. In the Budapest drawing, the smaller and bigger stones scattered on the ground and the plants here and there are drawn in the same minute detail and with the same calligraphy as in the woodcut, while these details are not so finely elaborated on the tapestry designs. A basic difference between the mentioned analogous tapestry designs and the Budapest drawing is that while those are multi-figured compositions with some landscape details, the Sacrifice of Abraham is predominantly a landscape rendition. No other drawing by Coecke is known in which the landscape is so dominant. The representation of space in the multi-figured compositions of the artist is quite problematic, since the suggestion of the continuity of space is