Mantegna, Andrea Mantegna, Andrea (1431 -1506). An Italian painter and engraver, Mantegna painted heroic figures, often using a dramatic perspective that gives the viewer the illusion of looking up from below. The effect is somewhat the same as looking up from ground level at statues mounted on a pedestal. Mantegna was born about 1431 near Vicenza, Italy. When he was about 10 years old he was ...

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Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver, was born in Isola di Carturo, Padua in 1431 and died in Mantua in 1506. Being a pupil and a godson of Francesco Squarcione, he passed a period of artistic formation in culturally rich environment studying works of Tuscanian artists such as Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Filippo Lippi and Donatello. The paintings of young ...