Ebook: Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance
Author: Mantegna Andrea, Mantegna Andrea, Manca Joseph
- Tags: Mantegna Andrea -- 1431-1506 -- Criticism and interpretation., Mural painting and decoration Renaissance -- Italy., Art Renaissance -- Italy., ART -- History -- General., Mantegna Andrea -- 1431-1506, Art Renaissance., Mural painting and decoration Renaissance., Italy.
- Series: Temptis
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Parkstone International
- City: New York, Italy
- Language: English
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Mantegna was born in 1431. He trained in painting at the Padua School where Donatello and Paolo Uccello had previously attended. Even at a young age commissions for Andrea's work flooded in, for example the frescoes of the Ovetari Chapel of Padua. In a short space of time Mantegna found his niche as a modernist due to his highly original ideas; the use of perspective in his works. His marriage with Nicolosia Read more...
Abstract: Mantegna was born in 1431. He trained in painting at the Padua School where Donatello and Paolo Uccello had previously attended. Even at a young age commissions for Andrea's work flooded in, for example the frescoes of the Ovetari Chapel of Padua. In a short space of time Mantegna found his niche as a modernist due to his highly original ideas; the use of perspective in his works. His marriage with Nicolosia Bellini, the sister of Giovanni, paved the way for his entree into Venice. Mantegna reached an artistic maturity with his altarpiece of Pala San Zeno. He remained in Mantua and became the ar