By Keith Christiansen
Few artists have controlled to imprint their character so indelibly on posterity as Andrea Mantegna (c. 1430–1506). prior to he reached the age of twenty, Mantegna was once already being praised for his alto ingegno (exalted genius), and he grew to become the court docket artist for the Gonzaga family members in Mantua prior to he was once thirty. but, this e-book argues, Mantegna used to be now not easily an excellent painter. including Donatello, he used to be the defining genius of the fifteenth century: the degree of what an artist might be. His hugely unique and deeply own imaginative and prescient, the descriptive richness of his images, and his biting, hypercritical yet constantly exalted brain gave Mantegna’s artwork a unprecedented facet and earned him a preeminent position within the Renaissance.
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