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ANDREA MANTEGNA,
Born 1430, died 1506.
For a while we must leave beautiful Florence and
her painters, who were striving after perfection by
imitating what they saw in nature—the common
appearances of the objects, animate and inanimate,
around them—and turn to another part of Italy,
where there arose a man of genius who pursued a
wholly different course; at least he started from a.
different point; and who exercised for a time a
great influence on all the painters of Italy, including
those of Florence. This was Andrea Mantegna,
particularly interesting to English readers, as his
most celebrated work, the Triumph of Julius
Caesar, is now preserved in the palace of Hampton
Court, and has formed part of the royal collection
ever since the days of Charles I.
Andrea Mantegna was the son of very poor
and obscure parents, and born near Padua in
1430.* All we learn of his early childhood
* The dates of Mantegna’s birth and death were long sub-
jects of uncertainty and controversy. According to some
authors he was born in 1451, and died in 1517; but the
best and latest authorities are now agreed upon the dates as
given in the text.
ANDREA MANTEGNA,
Born 1430, died 1506.
For a while we must leave beautiful Florence and
her painters, who were striving after perfection by
imitating what they saw in nature—the common
appearances of the objects, animate and inanimate,
around them—and turn to another part of Italy,
where there arose a man of genius who pursued a
wholly different course; at least he started from a.
different point; and who exercised for a time a
great influence on all the painters of Italy, including
those of Florence. This was Andrea Mantegna,
particularly interesting to English readers, as his
most celebrated work, the Triumph of Julius
Caesar, is now preserved in the palace of Hampton
Court, and has formed part of the royal collection
ever since the days of Charles I.
Andrea Mantegna was the son of very poor
and obscure parents, and born near Padua in
1430.* All we learn of his early childhood
* The dates of Mantegna’s birth and death were long sub-
jects of uncertainty and controversy. According to some
authors he was born in 1451, and died in 1517; but the
best and latest authorities are now agreed upon the dates as
given in the text.