MANTEGNA, Andrea
Biography
Portrait of a Man
c. 1460
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Mantegna was the dominant figure of the Paduan
school. His severe and precise style combines the Florentines' direct observation
of nature with a subtlety of colour tracable to the influence of his Venetian
brother-in-law Giovanni Bellini. Underlying these influences is also a
sense of classic monumentality, derived from his close study of antique
sculpture.
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