Andrea Mantegna
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Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
St. Sebastian, 1480; panel; Musée du Louvre
The Agony in the Garden (1459) National Gallery, London, is the pinnacle of Mantegna's early style
Christ as the Suffering Redeemer. Christ resurrecting, depicted according to Luke 24:1–2, praising the Lord with a hymn (c. 1488–1500)
Judith and Holofernes, by Andrea Mantegna or possibly Giulio Campagnola, c. 1495
Saint Sebastian (Mantegna)
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Saint Sebastian is the subject of three paintings by the Italian Early Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. The Paduan artist lived in a period of frequent plagues; Sebastian was considered protector a
Andrea Mantegna
…Lorenzo de' Medici when the Florentine leader visited Mantua in 1483), painted some architectonic and decorative fragments, and finished the intense St. Sebastian now in the Louvre (box at top). In 1488, Mantegna was called by Pope Innocent VIII to paint frescoes in a chapel Belvedere in the Vatican. This series…
c. 1470, Vienna
c. 1480, Paris
c. 1506, Venice
The rider in the cloud of the Vienna Saint Sebastian