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Showing posts with label Andrea Mantegna. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Andrea Mantegna. Show all posts

11 March 2025

Mantegna frescoes reduced to rubble

Precious works of art damaged by Allied bombing A photograph taken soon after the raid shows the scale of damage to the church One of the he...

19 August 2018

Salomone Rossi - violinist and composer

Leading Jewish musician of the late Renaissance Salomone Rossi's talent with the violin earned him work for the Mantuan court T...

19 July 2018

Cesare Cremonini - philosopher

Great thinker famous for Galileo ‘denial’ Cesare Cremonini was one of the most revered Aristotelian philosophers of his day The phil...

5 June 2017

Ludovico III Gonzaga – Marquis of Mantua

Condottiero fought to improve the town of his birth Ludovico Gonzaga in a detail from a painting by Andrea Mantegna Ludovico Gonz...

23 February 2017

Gentile Bellini - Renaissance painter

Bellini family were Venice's leading 15th century artists A self-portrait of Gentile Bellini which he is thought to have drawn in...

13 September 2016

Andrea Mantegna – artist

Genius led the way with his use of perspective The painter Andrea Mantegna died on this day in 1506 in Mantua. Mantegna's San Seb...

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