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Mantegna (The Library of Great Masters)
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July 28, 2010
Renaissance Art: A Crash Course referred to Mantegna as a painter-archaeologist. Of course this piqued my interest. The local library system doesn't seem to have much in the way of biographical material on this semi-obscure figure, but I'm sifting through what it does have.
Anyway, this book covers Mantegna only as a painter, not an archaeologist. (I suspect he may have been one of the tomb-raiding-ish variety, just given his time period.) But it is a good look at his paintings. Some of them have good details of things like hats and shoes, particularly The Court and The Meeting.
Anyway, this book covers Mantegna only as a painter, not an archaeologist. (I suspect he may have been one of the tomb-raiding-ish variety, just given his time period.) But it is a good look at his paintings. Some of them have good details of things like hats and shoes, particularly The Court and The Meeting.
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