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Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance (Temporis Collection)
Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance - Temporis Collection Author:Joseph Manca Mantegna was born in 1431. He trained in painting at the Padua School where Donatello and Paolo Uccello had previously attended. Even at a young age commissions for Andrea's work flooded in, for example the frescoes of the Ovetari Chapel of Padua. In a short space of time Mantegna found his niche as a modernist due to his highly original ideas; ... more »the use of perspective in his works. His marriage with Nicolosia Bellini, the sister of Giovanni, paved the way for his« less