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View all 147 artworks. Andrea Mantegna lived in the XV – XVI cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Early Renaissance and High Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Mantegna's main legacy is considered the introduction of spatial illusionism, both in frescoes and in sacra conversazione paintings: his tradition of ceiling decoration was followed for almost three centuries.
Strongly influenced by Classical Art, his paintings pay equal homage to Roman imperial rulers and Christian saints, while in formal and stylistic terms they exude a complementary combination of chiaroscuro hardness and soft, naturalistic delicacy.
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Andrea Mantegna was a painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi (“Room of the Bride and Groom”), or Camera Picta (“Painted Room”) (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, for which he developed a.
Born in or around 1431 in the small town of Isola di Carturo, near Padua, Mantegna is known for the linear sharpness and rigorous attention to detail of his art. Mantegna also stands out among Italian Renaissance painters for his complete dedication to classical antiquity.
The great paintings by Mantegna in the Gallery date from his years in Mantua as court artist to the Gonzaga. His scholarly interest in the antique drew him into friendship with humanist scholars like Felice Feliciano.
Andrea was only seventeen when he painted, in the church of S. Sofia in Padua, a Madonna picture of exceptional and recognized excellence. He was no doubt fully aware of haying achieved no common feat, as he marked the work with his name and the date, and the years of his age.
Andrea Mantegna, one of the most acclaimed painters of the early Renaissance, decided sometime around 1470 to tackle a new medium—the recently invented and technically daunting process of copperplate engraving.
Artworks. See all 29 artworks ›. The Entombment, 1485/90, possibly printed in the 18th century. Andrea Mantegna. The Risen Christ between Saints Andrew and Longinus, c. 1472. Andrea Mantegna. Bacchanal with Silenus, 1475/80. Andrea Mantegna.