Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (born 1431, Isola di Cartura [near Vicenza], Republic
of Venice [Italy]—died September 13, 1506, Mantua), painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy.
His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi (“Room of the Bride and Groom”), or Camera Picta (“Painted Room”) (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, a room frescoed with illusionistic paintings. Mantegna’s other principal works include the Ovetari Chapel frescoes (1448–55) in the Eremitani Church in Padua and the Triumph of Caesar (started around 1486), regarded as the culmination of his late style.
Mantegna was no less eminent as an engraver , though his history in that respect is somewhat obscure, partly because he never signed or dated any of his plates. His technique is characterized by the strongly pronounced shapes of the drawing , and by the parallel hatching used to produce shadows. The closer the parallel lines, the darker the shadows were.
of Venice [Italy]—died September 13, 1506, Mantua), painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy.
His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi (“Room of the Bride and Groom”), or Camera Picta (“Painted Room”) (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, a room frescoed with illusionistic paintings. Mantegna’s other principal works include the Ovetari Chapel frescoes (1448–55) in the Eremitani Church in Padua and the Triumph of Caesar (started around 1486), regarded as the culmination of his late style.
Mantegna was no less eminent as an engraver , though his history in that respect is somewhat obscure, partly because he never signed or dated any of his plates. His technique is characterized by the strongly pronounced shapes of the drawing , and by the parallel hatching used to produce shadows. The closer the parallel lines, the darker the shadows were.
