Andrea Mantegna Judith and Holofernes Painting ID:: 2722 Andrea Mantegna8.jpg
Judith and Holofernes 1495-1500
The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Andrea Mantegna The Meeting Painting ID:: 2716 Andrea Mantegna2.jpg
The Meeting 1474
Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy
Andrea Mantegna Adoration of the Magi Painting ID:: 2717 Andrea Mantegna3.jpg
Adoration of the Magi Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Andrea Mantegna Madonna and Child Painting ID:: 2718 Andrea Mantegna4.jpg
Madonna and Child 1506
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Andrea Mantegna Portrait of the Protonary Carlo de Medici Painting ID:: 2719 Andrea Mantegna5.jpg
Portrait of the Protonary Carlo de Medici 1459-66
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Andrea Mantegna Samson and Delilah Painting ID:: 2720 Andrea Mantegna6.jpg
Samson and Delilah National Gallery, London
Andrea Mantegna St.Sebastian Painting ID:: 2721 Andrea Mantegna7.jpg
St.Sebastian 1459-60
Art History Museum, Vienna
Andrea Mantegna Judith and Holofernes Painting ID:: 2723 Andrea Mantegna9.jpg
Judith and Holofernes 1495-1500
The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Andrea Mantegna Madonna of Victory Painting ID:: 2724 Andrea Mantegna10.jpg
Madonna of Victory Musee du Louvre, Paris
Andrea Mantegna Christ the Redeemer Painting ID:: 2725 Andrea Mantegna11.jpg
Christ the Redeemer Congregazione di Carita, Correggio
Andrea Mantegna The Crucifixion Painting ID:: 2727 Andrea Mantegna12.jpg
The Crucifixion 1456-59
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Andrea Mantegna Camera degli Sposi Painting ID:: 2728 Andrea Mantegna13.jpg
Camera degli Sposi 1474
Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy
Andrea Mantegna Portrait of a Man aaa Painting ID:: 2729 Andrea Mantegna14.jpg
Portrait of a Man aaa 1460
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Andrea Mantegna The Agony in the Garden Painting ID:: 2730 Andrea Mantegna15.jpg
The Agony in the Garden 1460
National Gallery, London
Andrea Mantegna Camera degli Sposi Painting ID:: 2731 Andrea Mantegna16.jpg
Camera degli Sposi 1474
Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy
Andrea Mantegna Presentation at the Temple Painting ID:: 2732 Andrea Mantegna17.jpg
Presentation at the Temple Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
Andrea Mantegna Madonna and Child with Cherubs Painting ID:: 2733 Andrea Mantegna18.jpg
Madonna and Child with Cherubs Pinacoteca di Brera
Andrea Mantegna Calvary (mk05) Painting ID:: 20074 new5/Andrea Mantegna-894464.jpg
Calvary (mk05) 1457-60
Wood,30 x 38''(76 x 96 cm)Center of the predella painted for the Church of San Zeno in Verona;entered he Louvre in 1798
Andrea Mantegna Virgin and Child Surrounded by Six Saints and Gianfrancesco II Gonzaga (mk05) Painting ID:: 20078 new5/Andrea Mantegna-742394.jpg
Virgin and Child Surrounded by Six Saints and Gianfrancesco II Gonzaga (mk05) 1495
Canvas,112 1/4 x 66 1/4''(285 x 168 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1798
Andrea Mantegna Sebastian Painting ID:: 20079 new5/Andrea Mantegna-462379.jpg
Sebastian ca 1480 canvas,100 1/2 x 55''(255 x 140 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1910
Andrea Mantegna Mars and Venus Known as Parnassus (mk05) Painting ID:: 20086 new5/Andrea Mantegna-443673.jpg
Mars and Venus Known as Parnassus (mk05) Painted like the following six pictures,for the studio of Isabella d'Este in the Ducal Palace at Mantua
Canvas,62 1/2 x 751/2''(159 x 192 cm).Entered the Louvre in 18001
Andrea Mantegna Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden f Virtue (mk05) Painting ID:: 20087 new5/Andrea Mantegna-366882.jpg
Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden f Virtue (mk05) ca 1502
Canvas 63 x 75 1/2\'\'(160 x 192 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1801
Andrea Mantegna Portrait of Cardinal Lodovico Trevisano (mk08) Painting ID:: 21195 new6/Andrea Mantegna-277766.jpg
Portrait of Cardinal Lodovico Trevisano (mk08) c.1459-1469
Tempera on wood
44x33cm
Berlin,Gemaldegalerie,Staatliche Museenzu
Berlin-Preubische Kulturbesitz
Andrea Mantegna Agony in the Garden (mk08) Painting ID:: 21234 new6/Andrea Mantegna-522249.jpg
Agony in the Garden (mk08) c.1460
Tempera on wood
63x80cm
London,National Gallery
Andrea Mantegna Dead Christ (mk08) Painting ID:: 21235 new6/Andrea Mantegna-928639.jpg
Dead Christ (mk08) Tempera on canvas
66x81cm
Milan,Pinacoteca di Brera
Andrea Mantegna The Gonzaga Family and Retinue finished (mk080 Painting ID:: 21236 new6/Andrea Mantegna-566623.jpg
The Gonzaga Family and Retinue finished (mk080 1474
Fresco 600x807cm
Mantua,Palazzo Ducale,Camera degli Sposi
Andrea Mantegna The Agony in the Garden (nn03) Painting ID:: 23365 new8/Andrea Mantegna-882964.jpg
The Agony in the Garden (nn03) c 1460 Tempera on panel 63 x 0 cm 24 3/4 x 31 1/2 in National Gallery London
Andrea Mantegna The Triumphs of Caesar (mk25) Painting ID:: 23992 new8/Andrea Mantegna-642455.jpg
The Triumphs of Caesar (mk25) c 1485-94
Andrea Mantegna The Dead Christ (mk45) Painting ID:: 25954 new2/Andrea Mantegna-962867.jpg
The Dead Christ (mk45) c.1480
Tempera on canvas
66x81.3cm
Milan,Pinacoteca di Brera
Italian
1431-1506
Andrea Mantegna Locations
Mantegna was born in Isola di Carturo, close to Padua in the Republic of Venice, second son of a carpenter, Biagio. At the age of eleven he became the apprentice of Francesco Squarcione, Paduan painter. Squarcione, whose original vocation was tailoring, appears to have had a remarkable enthusiasm for ancient art, and a faculty for acting. Like his famous compatriot Petrarca, Squarcione was something of a fanatic for ancient Rome: he travelled in Italy, and perhaps Greece, amassing antique statues, reliefs, vases, etc., forming a collection of such works, then making drawings from them himself, and throwing open his stores for others to study. All the while, he continued undertaking works on commission for which his pupils no less than himself were made available.
San Zeno Altarpiece, (left panel), 1457-60; San Zeno, VeronaAs many as 137 painters and pictorial students passed through Squarcine's school, which had been established towards 1440 and which became famous all over Italy. Padua was attractive for artists coming not only from Veneto but also from Tuscany, such as Paolo Uccello, Filippo Lippi and Donatello. Mantegna's early career was shaped indeed by impressions of Florentine works. At the time, Mantegna was said to be a favorite pupil; Squarcione taught him the Latin language, and instructed him to study fragments of Roman sculpture. The master also preferred forced perspective, the lingering results of which may account for some Mantegna's later innovations. However, at the age of seventeen, Mantegna separated himself from Squarcione. He later claimed that Squarcione had profited from his work without paying the rights.
His first work, now lost, was an altarpiece for the church of Santa Sofia in 1448. The same year Mantegna was called, together with Nicol?? Pizolo, to work with a large group of painters entrusted with the decoration of the Ovetari Chapel in the apse of the church of Eremitani. It is probable, however, that before this time some of the pupils of Squarcione, including Mantegna, had already begun the series of frescoes in the chapel of S. Cristoforo, in the church of Sant'Agostino degli Eremitani, today considered his masterpiece. After a series of coincidences, Mantegna finished most of the work alone, though Ansuino, who collaborated with Mantegna in the Ovetari Chapel, brought his style in the Forl?? school of painting. The now censorious Squarcione carped about the earlier works of this series, illustrating the life of St James; he said the figures were like men of stone, and had better have been colored stone-color at once.
This series was almost entirely lost in the 1944 Allied bombings of Padua. The most dramatic work of the fresco cycle was the work set in the worm's-eye view perspective, St. James Led to His Execution. (For an example of Mantegna's use of a lowered view point, see the image at right of Saints Peter and Paul; though much less dramatic in its perspective that the St. James picture, the San Zeno altarpiece was done shortly after the St. James cycle was finished, and uses many of the same techniques, including the classicizing architectural structure.)
San Luca Altarpiece, 1453; Tempera on panel; Pinacoteca di Brera, MilanThe sketch of the St. Stephen fresco survived and is the earliest known preliminary sketch which still exists to compare to the corresponding fresco. Despite the authentic look of the monument, it is not a copy of any known Roman structure. Mantegna also adopted the wet drapery patterns of the Romans, who derived the form from the Greek invention, for the clothing of his figures, although the tense figures and interactions are derived from Donatello. The drawing shows proof that nude figures were used in the conception of works during the Early Renaissance. In the preliminary sketch, the perspective is less developed and closer to a more average viewpoint however.
Among the other early Mantegna frescoes are the two saints over the entrance porch of the church of Sant'Antonio in Padua, 1452, and an altarpiece of St. Luke and other saints (at left) for the church of S. Giustina, now in the Brera Gallery in Milan (1453). As the young artist progressed in his work, he came under the influence of Jacopo Bellini, father of the celebrated painters Giovanni and Gentile, and of a daughter Nicolosia. In 1453 Jacopo consented to a marriage between Nicolosia to Mantegna in marriage.