Tag Archives: Lodovico Gonzaga

MANTEGNA: ANCIENT RITES MEET CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES …

… or agonies in the Garden.He antagonized conventional orthodox theology. Mantegna was one of the most important historical thinkers of his time. He brought to his understanding of painting as historical narrative, a new sense of the past, like that … Continue reading

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MANTEGNA: MASTER OF THE FANTASTIC & THE TERRIBLE

The gruesome, the tragic and the triumphant that could be depicted with paradoxical decorative elegance. His manner was prickly, his life was mundane and methodical, his painting was poised and static; why then should he have so much power to … Continue reading

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