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ANDREA MANTEGNA
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Mantua Date: 1431 - 1506 |
- Andrea Mantegna (1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
- Mantegna was born in Isola di Carturo, Venetian Republic close to Padua.
- He was the second son of a carpenter, Biagio.
- At the age of 11, he became apprenticed to Paduan painter Francesco Squarcione.
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Isabella d’Este, who married Francesco II in 1490,
rapidly decided to create a studiolo in a tower of the
old Castello di San Giorgio. The work on this project
lasted more than twenty years. She entrusted Mantegna
with the first two canvases of the cycle, Parnassus
(1497) and Minerva (1502), but considering his work
out-of-date, she turned to the most famous painters of
the new generation.
(mini-site.louvre.fr)
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