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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His flinty, metallic landscapes, and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting.
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Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes, and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting.
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Mantegna's first work, now lost, was an altarpiece for the church of Santa Sofia in 1448.
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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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