Andrea Mantegna The Battle of the Sea God with the initial of the artist and the date Painting ID:: 42269 new16/Andrea Mantegna-446998.jpg
The Battle of the Sea God with the initial of the artist and the date mk168
1494
Pen and ink on paper
292x382mm
Andrea Mantegna Island Abode Painting ID:: 42272 new16/Andrea Mantegna-685232.jpg
Island Abode mk168
213x225mm
London
British Museum
Andrea Mantegna De died Christ Painting ID:: 42510 new16/Andrea Mantegna-969738.jpg
De died Christ m k169
after 1466. Tempered on cloth 67.9x81cm Pinacoteca Tue Brera, Milan
Andrea Mantegna St. Sebastiaan Painting ID:: 42633 new16/Andrea Mantegna-684226.jpg
St. Sebastiaan MK169
ca. 1460 Panel 68x30cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Weep
Andrea Mantegna The Agony in the Garden Painting ID:: 42901 new16/Andrea Mantegna-289365.jpg
The Agony in the Garden mk170
Circa 1460
Tempera on wood
62.9x80cm
Andrea Mantegna Detail of The Agony in the Garden Painting ID:: 42902 new16/Andrea Mantegna-482955.jpg
Detail of The Agony in the Garden mk170
Andrea Mantegna The Virgin and Child with the Magadalen and Saint John the Baptist Painting ID:: 42910 new16/Andrea Mantegna-286532.jpg
The Virgin and Child with the Magadalen and Saint John the Baptist mk170
circa 1500
Tempera on canvas
139.1x116.8cm
Andrea Mantegna The Holy Fmaily with Saint John Painting ID:: 42911 new16/Andrea Mantegna-726653.jpg
The Holy Fmaily with Saint John mk170
circa 1500
Tempera on canvas
71.1x50.8cm
Andrea Mantegna Parnassus Painting ID:: 44857 new16/Andrea Mantegna-849676.jpg
Parnassus mk176
c.1490
Oil on canvas
63.5x75.37in
Andrea Mantegna Caesar-s Chariot Painting ID:: 50866 new18/Andrea Mantegna-754689.jpg
Caesar-s Chariot mk216
Caesar-s Chariot rom the triumph of caesar Mantegna was the most important 15-century North Italian painter and the Triumph of Caesar may well be his masterpiece Even Today
Andrea Mantegna Detail of Ceiling from the Camera degli Sposi Painting ID:: 51716 new19/Andrea Mantegna-869264.jpg
Detail of Ceiling from the Camera degli Sposi nn09
c.1474
Andrea Mantegna Virgin Marie dod Painting ID:: 53698 new19/Andrea Mantegna-725958.jpg
Virgin Marie dod mk234
about 1460
54x42cm
Andrea Mantegna Mansportratt Painting ID:: 53699 new19/Andrea Mantegna-988843.jpg
Mansportratt mk234
probably
about 1460
24x19cm
Andrea Mantegna Judit with Holofernes-head Painting ID:: 53700 new19/Andrea Mantegna-242466.jpg
Judit with Holofernes-head mk234
about 1495
30x18cm
Andrea Mantegna Christ in Gethsemane Painting ID:: 53701 new19/Andrea Mantegna-768573.jpg
Christ in Gethsemane mk234
about 1460
63x81cm
Andrea Mantegna ecce homo Painting ID:: 55985 new20/Andrea Mantegna-588277.jpg
ecce homo mk247
c.1500,tempera on canvas,21.25x16.5 in,54x42 cm,musee jacquemart-andre,paris,france
Andrea Mantegna ludovico ii gonzag moter sin son Painting ID:: 56628 new20/Andrea Mantegna-583938.jpg
ludovico ii gonzag moter sin son mk248 freskernarna i camera degli sposi i bertigpalatset i mantua ar slaende exempel pa 1400-tllusionism.
Andrea Mantegna klagan over den dode kristus Painting ID:: 56629 new20/Andrea Mantegna-832749.jpg
klagan over den dode kristus mk248 mantegna bar ramat in ett begransat rum pa ett satt som rent arkitektoniskt definierar det som ett barbus ocb sin erfarenbet av klassiska modeller frmedelar ban genom kristusgestalten en imponerande strambet. hans masterliga forminskning gor ocksa att betraktaren uppmarksammar de genomborrade fotterna, oavsett ur vilken vinken vinkel verket betraktas. malade fran mantegnas modeller av vikt papper ocb fastklistrat tyg.
Andrea Mantegna The Passion of Jesus as Painting ID:: 57230 new20/Andrea Mantegna-528538.jpg
The Passion of Jesus as mk255 about the year 1457-1459. Plastic dye painting, oil painting, wood is about 0.76 meters, 0.96 meters wide. Paris, the Louvre.
Andrea Mantegna Medici portrait Painting ID:: 58331 new20/Andrea Mantegna-687793.jpg
Medici portrait mk261 Florence in 1466 egg tempera of wood 41.3 x 29.5 cm
Andrea Mantegna The Agony in the Garden Painting ID:: 59746 new21/Andrea Mantegna-898654.jpg
The Agony in the Garden The Agony in the Garden (right panel of the predella of the San Zeno Altarpiece, 1455) National Gallery, London is the pinnacle of Mantegna's early style.
Andrea Mantegna San Luca Altarpiece Painting ID:: 59747 new21/Andrea Mantegna-374573.jpg
San Luca Altarpiece San Luca Altarpiece, 1453; Tempera on panel; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Andrea Mantegna San Zeno Altarpiece, Painting ID:: 59748 new21/Andrea Mantegna-452863.jpg
San Zeno Altarpiece, San Zeno Altarpiece, (central panel), 1457-60; San Zeno, Verona
Andrea Mantegna Detail of the frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua Painting ID:: 59749 new21/Andrea Mantegna-867997.jpg
Detail of the frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua Detail of the frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua
Andrea Mantegna The court of Mantua, fresco for the Camera degli Sposi of Palazzo Ducale, Mantua. Painting ID:: 59750 new21/Andrea Mantegna-357355.jpg
The court of Mantua, fresco for the Camera degli Sposi of Palazzo Ducale, Mantua. The court of Mantua, fresco for the Camera degli Sposi of Palazzo Ducale, Mantua.
Andrea Mantegna The Madonna of the Cherubim Painting ID:: 59751 new21/Andrea Mantegna-454697.jpg
The Madonna of the Cherubim The Madonna of the Cherubim (1485).
Andrea Mantegna The Lamentation over the Dead Christ Painting ID:: 59752 new21/Andrea Mantegna-849892.jpg
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Tempera on canvas, 68x81 cm, 1490
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
Andrea Mantegna San Girolamo nel Deserto Painting ID:: 68140 new23/Andrea Mantegna-737366.jpg
San Girolamo nel Deserto Year from 1448(1448) until 1451(1451) (from 1450(1450) until 1451(1451)?)
Technique Tempera on panel
Dimensions 48 X 36 cm
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.