Together with Giovanni Bellini, Andrea Mantegna was largely responsible for spreading the ideas of the Early Renaissance in northern Italy.
He studied in Padua under Francesco Squarcione, who also collected and sold antiquities and coins, thus introducing his pupil to this field. But most important for Mantegna’s artistic development was the sculptor Donatello, who from 1443 created the high altar for San Antonio in Padua.
1455. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
1457-59. Tempera on panel. S. Zeno, Verona, Italy.
1457-60. Center of the predella painted for the Church of San Zeno in Verona. Oil on panel. 76x96 cm. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
1457. Fresco. Church of the Wremitani, Orvetari Chapel, Padua, Italy. Read Note.
c.1459. Oil on panel. 68x30 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
c.1459. Detail. Oil on panel. 68x30 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
c.1459-1469. Tempera on wood. 44x33 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
c. 1460. Tempera on panel. 54x42 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
c.1465-66. Oil on canvas. 69x86.3 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
c. 1465-70. Oil on canvas. 43x32 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1465-74. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail of ceiling. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
1465-74. Detail. Fresco. Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi (Bridal Chamber), Mantua, Italy.
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Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance) by Keith Christiansen. George Braziller, 1994.
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Mantegna (Masters of Italian Art Series) by Nike Batzner. Konemann, 1998.