Ein Porträt Andrea Mantegnas als alter Orpheus im Kontext seiner Selbstdarstellungen.

'Investigates Mantegna's mid-15th c. self-portrait (fresco destroyed 1944) in the Eremitani, Padua, comparing it to Dürer's 1494 drawing "Death of Orpheus" (Hamburger Kunsthalle), suggesting that the Dürer drawing is a portrait of Mantegna. Also studies Mantegna's self-portrait bust in Mantua, Sant'Andrea; his self-portrait in the Camera Picta of the Castello di S. Giorgio, Mantua, and the self-portrait in his "Presentation in the Temple" (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie). Argues that Mantegna's metaphor of himself as the old Orpheus (the legendary poet who died at the hands of Ciconian women) is key to his artistic self-identity and role as court artist' (BHA).