Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna
Born
Andrea Mantegna

c. 1431
Isola di Carturo, Venice (now Italy)
DiedSeptember 13, 1506
Mantua, now Italy
NationalityItalian
EducationFrancesco Squarcione
Known forPainting, fresco
Notable workSt. Sebastian
Camera degli Sposi
The Agony in the Garden
MovementItalian Renaissance

Andrea Mantegna (UK: /mænˈtɛnjə/, US: /mɑːnˈtnjə/,[1][2] Italian: [anˈdrɛːa manˈteɲɲa]; c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter.

Major works

Mantegna's only known sculpture is a "Sant'Eufemia" in the Cathedral of Irsina, Basilicata. The rest of these are paintings:

  • St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1448–1451) - Tempera on wood, 48 x 36 cm, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil
  • The Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1451–1453) - Tempera on canvas transferred from wood, 40 x 55,6 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • San Luca Altarpiece (1453) - Panel, 177 x 230 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455) - Tempera on wood, 68.9 x 86.3 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
  • Crucifixion (1457–1459) - Wood, 67 x 93 cm, Louvre, Paris
  • Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (1495–1500) - Tempera on wood, 78 x 48 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Agony in the Garden (c. 1459) - Tempera on wood, 63 x 80 cm, National Gallery, London
  • Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan, (c. 1459–1460) - Tempera on wood, 44 x 33 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
  • St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels, (attributed, 1460) - Tempera on canvas, 385 x 220 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Portrait of a Man (c. 1460-1470) - Wood, 24.2 x 19 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
  • Death of the Virgin (c. 1461) - Panel, 54 x 42 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid
  • Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461) - Panel, 25 x 18 cm, Capodimonte Museum, Naples
  • Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1465–1470) - Oil on canvas, 43x32 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
  • St. George (c. 1460) - Tempera on panel, 66 x 32 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
  • San Zeno Altarpiece (1457–1460) - Panel, 480 x 450 cm, San Zeno, Verona
  • St. Sebastian (c. 1457–1459) - Wood, 68 x 30 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna [1]
  • St. Sebastian - Panel, 255 x 140 cm, Louvre, Paris
  • Adoration of the Magi (1462) - Tempera on panel, 76 x 76.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  • The Ascension (1462) - Tempera on panel, 86 x 42.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  • The Circumcision (1462–1464) - Tempera on panel, 86 x 42.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  • Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459-1466) - Tempera on panel, 40.6 x 29.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  • The Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485) - Panel, 88 x 70 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Triumph of Caesar (c. 1486) - Hampton Court Palace, England
  • The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490) - Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan[2]
  • Madonna of the Caves (1489–1490) - Uffizi, Florence
  • St. Sebastian (1490) - Panel, 68 x 30 cm, Ca' d'Oro, Venice
  • Madonna della Vittoria (1495) - Tempera on canvas, 285 x 168 cm, Louvre, Paris
  • Holy Family (c. 1495–1500) - Tempera on canvas, 75.5 x 61.5 cm, The Dresden Gallery, Dresden
  • Judith and Holofernes (1495) - Egg-tempera on wood, National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Trivulzio Madonna (1497) - Tempera on canvas, 287 x 214 cm, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Milan
  • Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497) - Canvas, 160 x 192 cm, Louvre, Paris
  • Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden of Virtue (c. 1502) - Oil on canvas, 160x192 cm, Louvre, Paris

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References

  1. "Mantegna, Andrea" Archived 2019-06-01 at the Wayback Machine (US) and "Mantegna, Andrea". Oxford Dictionaries UK Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  2. "Mantegna". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved June 1, 2019.