Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance (Temporis Collection)
by Joseph Manca
from Parkstone Press
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; the use of perspective in his works. His marriage with Nicolosia Bellini, the sister of Giovanni, paved the way for his
Mantegna (The Library of Great Masters)
by Ettore Camesasca
from Riverside Book Company
Andrea Mantegna
by Suzanne Boorsch
from Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mantegna's Camera Degli Sposi/Boxed
Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)
Mantegna. LA Camera Degli Sposi
Andrea Mantegna: The Adoration of the Magi (Getty Museum Studies on Art)
by Dawson W. Carr
from Getty Publications
Mantegna's magnificent painting, in the Getty collection, is based on one of Christianity's most beloved stories. The picture is much more than a Christmas-card image though. Dawson Carr explores Mantegna's life and milieu in fifteenth-century Padua and provides a fascinating closer look at the painting itself, considering Mantegna's innovative treatment of the subject, the relationship of the narrative to the viewer, and problems associated with the conservation of its beautiful, but fragile, distemper medium.
Mantegna (Masters of Italian Art Series)
by Nike Batzner
from Konemann
Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative
by Jack M. Greenstein
from University Of Chicago Press
"Greenstein has raised the level of sophistication of the historical criticism of Renaissance painting by at least one whole notch; at the same time, he has written a book for everyone interested in problems of interpretation."—David Summers, University of Virginia
Mantegna (Electa/Art Books International Pockets)
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