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Andrea Mantegna (1431 Isola di Carturo – 1506 Mantoue)
Mantegna, humaniste, géomètre, archéologue, homme d'une grande intelligence et d'une puissante imagination, domina la scène de l'Italie septentrionale grâce à sa personnalité impérieuse. Cherchant à produire des illusions d'optique, il parvint à maîtriser la perspective. Il se forma à la peinture auprès des maîtres de l'école de Padoue, que Donatello et Paolo Uccello avaient fréquentée...
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Mantegna; humanist, geometrist, archaeologist, of great scholastic and imaginative intelligence, dominated the whole of northern Italy by virtue of his imperious personality. Aiming at optical illusion, he mastered perspective. 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 frescos of the Ovetari Chapel of Padua. In...
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