Andrea Mantegna pintor e gravadoritaliano nasceuem Isola di

Andrea. Mantegna , pintor e gravadoritaliano, nasceuem Isola di Carturo, próximoa Vicenza, em 1431. É consideradoo primeiro mestre renascentista do norte da Itália. Mantegnacomeçousua carreiraem Pádua, mas deixoua cidadeem uma idade precoce. Em seguida, trabalhou em Verona e Roma. Mantegnapintouafrescose retábulose representouem proporções naturais o corpo humano, distinguidos pela sua solidez, expressividadee precisão anatômica. Seus trabalhos principais foramde cunhoreligioso. Característico da obrade Mantegnasão as cores brilhantes, a forte perspectiva linear e as linhas cortantes. Um dos primeirose maisdestacadosde seustrabalhos, foi umasérie de afrescossobre a vida de São Tiago e São Cristóvão, realizados para a capela Ovetari, na igreja dos Eremitani (1456) que, lamentavelmente, foramseriamentedanificadosdurantea Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 1459 Mantegnafoi para Mantuapara tornar-sepintorda corte para a família. Gonzaga. Sua obra-primafoi uma série de afrescos (1465 -1474)paraa “Cameradegli Sposi” do Palazzo. Ducale. Nestes trabalhos, ele levou a Arte da perspectiva ilusionista a novos limites. Morreu em. Mantuaem 13 de setembro de 1506.

St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1449 -50 Museu de Arte, São Paulo, Brasil San Marcos, Evangelist, 1450 Städelsches Kunstitut, Germany

Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1451 -53 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

St. Lucas Altarpiece, 1453 - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy

The Agony in the Garden, 1453 -54 - The National Gallery, London, UK

Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Louis of Toulouse, 1455 - Musée Jacquemart-André, France Madonna mit Hl. Maria Magdalena und Hl. Johannes dem Täufer - National Gallery, London, England

Agony in the Garden, 1457 -59 - National Gallery, London, UK

The Resurrection, 1457 -59 - Musée des Beaux-Arts, France

San Zeno Altarpiece, (central panel), 1457 -60 - Verona, Italy

Calvary, 1457 -60 - Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

The Adoration of the Magi Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy Cardenal Ludovico Trevisano, 1460 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Ascensión, 1460 Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy The Death of the Virgin, 1461 Museo del Prado, Spain

Presentation at the Temple, 1465 -66 - Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Madonna with Child, 1465 -70 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany Portrait of Carlo de Medici, c. 1467 Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

View of the West and North Walls, 1465 -74 - Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy

Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, 1465 -74 (detail) - Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy

The Court of Mantua, 1465 -74, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy

The Court of Mantua, 1465 -74 (detail) - Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy

Ceiling Oculus, 1465 -74 (detail) Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy The Meeting, 1465 -74 (detail) Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy

Descent into Limbo, 1470 -75 - Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection

St. Sebastian, 1480 Musée du Louvre, Paris, France The Madonna of the Cherubim, 1485 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy

Madonna of the Caves, c. 1489 -90 Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John, the Baptist, 1490 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

The Dead Christ, 1490 - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy

Christ the Redeemer, 1493 Private Collection Virgin and Child, 1495 Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Italy

Adoration of the Magi, 1495 -1505 - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Judith and Holofernes, c. 1495 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC La Madonna de la Victoria, 1496 Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Parnassus, 1496 -97 - Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Biography : Andrea Mantegna , Italian painter and engraver , was born in Isola di Carturo, near Vicenza, in 1431. He is consideredas the first Renascentist. Master of the Northern. Italy. Mantegnastartedhis careerin Padua, but left the city at an earlyage. Thenhe workedin Veronaand. Rome. Mantegnapaintedfrescoesandaltarpiecesanddepicted the humanbody in naturalproportions , distinguished by its solidity, expressiveness and anatomicaccuracy. His best workwasabout religious themes. A characteristicview of Mantegna'worksare the bright colors, the stronglinear perspective andthe sharplines. One of the earliestand mostdistinguishedof his works was a serie of frescoeson the life of St. Jamesand St. Christopher, performedfor the Chapel. Ovetari, in the "Church of the Hermits" (1456), which, unfortunately , was seriouslydamadgedduring the Second. World. War. In 1459 Mantegnawent to Mantua to become court painterfor the Gonzaga'sfamily. His masterpiecewas a serieof frescoes(1465 -1474)for “Camera degly. Sposi” in the Palazzo. Ducale. In theseworkshe broughtthe Art of the ilusionisticperspective to newlimits. He diedin Mantuaon September 13, 1506. Virgen Trivulzio, 1494 -97 Civico Museo d’Arte Antica, Milan, Italy

Ecce Homo, 1500 Museo Jacquemart-André, France Piedad, 1500 Statens Museum for Kunst, Dinamarca

Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue, 1500 -02 - Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Christ Carrying the Cross, 1505

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