Featured Artist at the e.Gallery: Andrea Mantegna


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Today’s Featured Artist at the e.Gallery is a 15th Century artist of the Early Renaissance movement, Andrea Mantegna [Italian, 1431-1506] Link: http://fineart.elib.com/fineart.php?dir=Alphabetical/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.


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The Agony in the Garden

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Calvary

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The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes
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