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Andrea Mantegna

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Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance painter who lived from about 1431 to 1506, a student of Roman archaeology and son-in-law of fellow painter Jacopo Bellini. He experimented with perspective, including lowering the horizon line to give his compositions a sense of greater monumentality, and his landscapes and figures show a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. He also led a workshop in Venice that was the leading producer of prints in the city before 1500. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Source Andrea Mantegna (Wikipedia)

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Descent into Limbo (Mantegna), Works
Source Descent into Limbo (Mantegna) (Wikipedia)
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  • Introduction
    His flinty, metallic landscapes, and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting.
  • Gender reference
    He experimented with perspective, including lowering the horizon line to give his compositions a sense of greater monumentality, and his landscapes and figures show a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting.
  • Practices: Painting, lead paragraph
    Andrea Mantegna (UK: , US: ; Italian: [anˈdrɛːa manˈteɲɲa]; c. 1431, September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Ma
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Wikidata: Andrea Mantegna
Wikidata Q5681, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
Descent into Limbo (Mantegna) (Wikipedia)
Works Created: Descent into Limbo (Mantegna), lead paragraph
Quote, Works Created: Descent into Limbo (Mantegna), lead paragraph
Descent into Limbo is a 1492 painting in tempera and gold on panel by Andrea Mantegna, formerly in the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection in Princeton, New Jersey. It depicts the Descent into Limbo of Jesus Christ. There are also
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