# Battle of the Sea Gods [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DÜRER, Albrecht]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen drawing, 289 x 381 mm ## Commentary Through his friendship with the Nuremberg humanist <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/durer/2/13/5/102.html'\)" href="/html/d/durer/2/13/5/102.html">Willibald Pirckheimer,</a> Dürer had been introduced in Rome in 1494 to the wonders of the ancient world, and his knowledge of Italian art was spurred on by the prints of Mantegna, Pollaiuolo, and others which he avidly copied. The present pen drawing is a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/mantegna/12/3battle3.html'\)" href="/html/m/mantegna/12/3battle3.html">copy of Mantegna's print.</a> ## Related artworks - [A Young Girl of Cologne and Dürer's Wife]() - [Abduction of a Woman]() - [Abduction of Proserpine on a Unicorn]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam \(detail\)]() - [Adam]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()