Mantegna (eBook)

N. D'Anvers (Autor)

T. Leman Hare (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
498 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-633955994-3 (EAN)

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"Mantegna" by D'Anvers is a biography of Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). He was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. Excerpt: " Born at a time of exceptional intellectual and æsthetic activity, when Italian humanism was nearing its fullest development, and the art of painting, after a protracted struggle with mechanical difficulties, had at last obtained an almost complete mastery over its media, with a real grasp of the long-neglected science of perspective, Andrea Mantegna may justly be said to have been a true representative of the early Renaissance in Italy, an[Pg 10] earnest combatant in the arduous struggle for liberty of thought and expression in which so many of his gifted fellow-countrymen were engaged."

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2023
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: Art History • Biography • Classic • Historical • Humanism influence • Italian renaissance • Jacopo Bellini • Metallic Landscapes • Monumentality • painting • Perspective Painting • Roman archeology • Sculptural Approach