Andrea Mantegna

1431–1506 · Republic of Venice · Italian Renaissance

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Wikipedia

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Figures carved like stone, sharp foreshortening, classical architecture and archaeological detail.

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“Lamentation of Christ”, 1483 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Saint Sebastian”, 1460
“Death of the Virgin”, 1462 — Museo del Prado
“Madonna della Vittoria”, 1495 — Louvre
“Parnassus”, 1475–1500 — Louvre
“Triumph of the Virtues”, 1487 — Louvre
“San Zeno Altarpiece”, 1460 — Basilica of San Zeno
“Saint Mark”, 1449 — Städel Museum
“Saint George”, 1460 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“The Reign of Comus”, 1506 — Louvre
“The Agony in the Garden”, 1455–1456 — National Gallery
“Crucifixion”, 1457 — Louvre
“Presentation at the Temple”, 1454 — Gemäldegalerie
“Christ as the Suffering Redeemer”, 1488 — Statens Museum for Kunst
“San Luca Altarpiece”, 1453 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Madonna and sleeping child”, 1457 — Gemäldegalerie
“Judith and Holofernes”, 1495
“Agony in the Garden”, 1459 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours
“Ecce Homo”, 1500 — Musée Jacquemart-André
“Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan”, 1457 — Gemäldegalerie
“The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome”, 1505 — National Gallery
“Samson and Delilah”, 1495 — National Gallery
“Portrait of Carlo de' Medici”, 1466 — Uffizi Gallery
“Madonna of the Cherubim”, 1485 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Adoration of the Shepherds”, 1450 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Saint Bernardino of Siena Between Two Angels”, 1469 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga”, 1461 — Museo di Capodimonte
“Madonna of the Caves”, 1489 — Uffizi Gallery
“Descent into the limbo”, 1475 — Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection
“Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. John the Baptist as a Child”, 1495 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Adoration of the Magi”, 1463 — Uffizi Gallery
“Madonna and Child with saints Jerome and Louis”, 1455 — Musée Jacquemart-André
“Trivulzio Madonna”, 1497 — Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
“The Resurrection”, 1459 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours
“Portrait of a Man”, 1470 — Samuel H. Kress Collection
“Dido”, 1495 — Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
“Virgin and Child”, 1460 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Madonna with child and three saints”, 1490 — Musée Jacquemart-André
“The Virgin and Child with the Magdalen and Saint John the Baptist”, 1497 — National Gallery
“Saint Jerome in the desert”, 1449 — São Paulo Museum of Art

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