The religious works of Andrea Mantegna – my daily art display
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The artist I am featuring today is the fifteenth century painter, Andrea Mantegna, who created many magnificent religious works. Andrea Mantegna was born into a lower working-class family in late 1490 or early 1491 in Isola di Carturo a small village close to Padua which was then within the Republic of Venice. His father, Biagio, was a carpenter. When he was eleven years of age he started an apprenticeship with Francesco Squarcione, an Italian painter from Padua. His school was very popular at the time and over a hundred painters passed through the school. Padua, then, was looked upon as a great place to be if you were and aspiring artist and the likes of Uccello, Lippi and Donatello spent time in the city. Mantegna, who was gifted with a precocious talent, stayed with his tutor for six years.
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![Breastplate [Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Gift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Houston] and figurative ocarina [Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Jorge G. and Nelly de Muñoz and Camilla Chandler Frost] showing powerful individuals in centered positions, against a backdrop of the Caribbean coastline, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, photo © Jota Arango](https://www.themonetpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Evenings-for-Educators-The-Portable-Universe-720x380.png)
