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Mantegna, Andrea

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Born: 1431 AD
Died: 1506 AD, at 75 years of age.

Nationality: Italian
Categories: Painters

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1431 - Born in Vicenza, Republic of Venice. A painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy.

1448 - Mantegna's other principal works include the Ovetari Chapel frescoes, Eremitani Church, Padua, and the “Triumph of Caesar” (Hampton Court Palace, England), the pinnacle of his late style.

         - At the age of 17, Mantegna disassociated himself from Squarcione's guardianship to establish his own workshop in Padua, later claiming that Squarcione had profited considerably from his services without giving due recompense.

1453 - His Venetian connections were strengthened by his marriage to Nicolosia, daughter of Jacopo Bellini and sister of Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, who became the leading family of painters in Venice during the following decade.

1459 - He was forced to submit to limitations on his freedom of travel and acceptance of commissions from other patrons.

1474 - His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi (Wedding Chamber), the painted room in the Palazzo Ducale, in which he developed a self-consistent illusion of a total environment.

1506 - Died on September 13th in Mantua, March of Mantua.





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