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MANTEGNA, Andrea
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1431-1506
Italian painter and printmaker. He occupies a pre-eminent position among Italian artists of the 15th century. The profound enthusiasm for the civilization of ancient Rome that infuses his entire oeuvre was unprecedented in a painter. In addition to its antiquarian content, his art is characterized by brilliant compositional solutions, the bold and innovative use of perspective and foreshortening and a precise and deliberate manner of execution, an aspect that was commented upon during his lifetime. He was held in great esteem by his contemporaries for his learning and skill and, significantly, he is the only artist of the period to have left a small corpus of self-portraits: two in the Ovetari Chapel; his presumed self-portrait in the Presentation in the Temple (Berlin, Gemeldegal.); one in the Camera Picta (Mantua, Pal. Ducale) and the funerary bust in his burial chapel in S Andrea, Mantua, designed and probably executed by himself. His printmaking activity is technically advanced and of great importance, although certain aspects of the execution remain to be clarified.
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St Sebastian sg
1456-59
Panel, 255 x 140 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 8049
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St_Sebastian_sg
1456-59
Panel, 255 x 140 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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The Madonna of the Cherubim sg
c. 1485
Panel, 88 x 70 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Painting ID:: 8050
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The_Madonna_of_the_Cherubim_sg
c. 1485
Panel, 88 x 70 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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The Lamentation over the Dead Christ st
c. 1490
Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Painting ID:: 8051
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The_Lamentation_over_the_Dead_Christ_st
c. 1490
Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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Parnassus sg
1497
Canvas, 160 x 192 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 8052
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Parnassus_sg
1497
Canvas, 160 x 192 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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View of the West and North Walls sg
1465-74
Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua
Painting ID:: 8053
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View_of_the_West_and_North_Walls_sg
1465-74
Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua
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MANTEGNA,_Andrea
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1431-1506
Italian painter and printmaker. He occupies a pre-eminent position among Italian artists of the 15th century. The profound enthusiasm for the civilization of ancient Rome that infuses his entire oeuvre was unprecedented in a painter. In addition to its antiquarian content, his art is characterized by brilliant compositional solutions, the bold and innovative use of perspective and foreshortening and a precise and deliberate manner of execution, an aspect that was commented upon during his lifetime. He was held in great esteem by his contemporaries for his learning and skill and, significantly, he is the only artist of the period to have left a small corpus of self-portraits: two in the Ovetari Chapel; his presumed self-portrait in the Presentation in the Temple (Berlin, Gemeldegal.); one in the Camera Picta (Mantua, Pal. Ducale) and the funerary bust in his burial chapel in S Andrea, Mantua, designed and probably executed by himself. His printmaking activity is technically advanced and of great importance, although certain aspects of the execution remain to be clarified.
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