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3 unusual facts about Andrea Mantegna


Amerino Cagnoni

The same year he executed a portrait of the painter Mantegna, reproduced in fresco for the lunettes of the Brera, a work that won the prize at the foundation of Mylius.

Andrea Mantegna

St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1448–1451) - Tempera on wood, 48 x 36 cm, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil

Nichts bleibt für die Ewigkeit

The cover of the single shows a detail of a painting by Andrea Mantegna, "Lamentation over the Dead Christ", which can be seen as an illustration to the lyrics.


Daniel Hopfer

However, the Hopfer family did not hesitate to plagiarize the work of their contemporaries: of Daniel's 230 known prints, 14 are copies of other masters, mainly Mantegna, whilst only a minority of Hieronymus' 82 plates are his original work—no less than 21 are copies of Durer's works, and around 30 others are copies from Jacopo de' Barbari, Raimondi and Altdorfer among others.

Ducal Palace of Colorno

It belonged to the Correggio and Terzi families, and in the 16th-17th centuries it was restored by countess Barbara Sanseverino, who desired a true palace for her court, and to house her prestigious collection of works by painters such as Raphael, Titian, Mantegna and Correggio.

George Weissbort

After initial experiments in the styles of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, Weissbort re-focused his energies towards the study of the "Old Masters", developing an enduring interest in the work of such artists as Johannes Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Diego Velázquez, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Andrea Mantegna and Titian.

Giovanni d'Alemagna

In 1448 he started working, together with Vivarini and Andrea Mantegna, in the decoration of the Ovetari Chapel in Padua, but died soon afterwards.

Gustav Friedrich Waagen

Among his other publications are some essays on Rubens, Mantegna and Signorelli; Kunstwerke und Künstler in Deutschland; and Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien.

Jean Poyer

Poyer traveled to northern Italy and became motivated by the works of artists such as Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini.

Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara

Leon Battista Alberti wrote his De Re Aedificatoria under Leonello's commission, and at the Ferrarese court worked artists such as Pisanello, Iacopo Bellini, Giovanni da Oriolo, Andrea Mantegna, Piero della Francesca and the Netherlandish Rogier van der Weyden.

Ovetari Chapel

The project was carried out by his widow, Imperatrice Ovetari, who, in 1448, commissioned the work to a group of artists, which included the elder Giovanni d'Alemagna, Antonio Vivarini (a Venetian late Gothic painter) and two young Paduans, Niccolò Pizzolo and Andrea Mantegna.

Roman triumph

Andrea Mantegna's series of large paintings on the Triumphs of Caesar (1484–92, now Hampton Court Palace) became immediately famous and was endlessly copied in print form.


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