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Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Reniassance [Hc]
Author(s): Joseph Mance (Author)
- Publisher: Parkstone Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 3 Aug. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1859950124
- ISBN-13: 9781859950128
Book Description
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
