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Mantegna and Francia

Chapter 1: MANTEGNA AND FRANCIA
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The author traces the lives, careers, and artistic development of two prominent Renaissance artists, presenting chronological chapters on early training, major commissions, technical methods, key frescoes and engravings, and later influence. Detailed visual analyses accompany descriptions of signature projects, studio practices, and relationships with contemporary patrons and peers, while lists of principal works, plates, a chronology, and bibliography provide reference. The volume combines on-site observations with secondary scholarship to map stylistic evolution and contrasts between the two masters, offering readers both narrative biography and focused art-historical commentary.

ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHIES OF
THE GREAT ARTISTS.

The following volumes, each illustrated with from 14 to 20 Engravings, are now ready, price 3s. 6d.:—

ITALIAN, &c.

  • GIOTTO. By Harry Quilter, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • FRA ANGELICO. By Catherine Mary Phillimore.
  • FRA BARTOLOMMEO. By Leader Scott.
  • MANTEGNA and FRANCIA. By Julia Cartwright.
  • LEONARDO DA VINCI. By Dr. J. Paul Richter.
  • MICHELANGELO. By Charles Clement.
  • RAPHAEL. From J. D. Passavant. By N. D’Anvers.
  • TITIAN. By Richard Ford Heath, M.A., Oxford.
  • TINTORETTO. By W. Roscoe Osler. From researches at Venice.
  • VELAZQUEZ. By Edwin Stowe, B.A., Oxford.
  • VERNET and DELAROCHE. By J. Runtz Rees.

TEUTONIC.

  • ALBRECHT DÜRER. By Richard Ford Heath, M.A., Oxford.
  • HOLBEIN. From Dr. A. Woltmann. By Joseph Cundall.
  • THE LITTLE MASTERS OF GERMANY.* By W. B. Scott.
  • REMBRANDT. From Charles Vosmaer. By J. W. Mollett, B.A.
  • RUBENS. By C. W. Kett, M.A., Oxford.
  • VAN DYCK and HALS. By Percy R. Head, Lincoln College, Oxford.
  • FIGURE PAINTERS OF HOLLAND. By Lord Ronald Gower, F.S.A.

ENGLISH.

  • HOGARTH. By Austin Dobson.
  • REYNOLDS. By F. S. Pulling, M.A., Oxford.
  • GAINSBOROUGH. By G. M. Brock-Arnold, M.A., Oxford.
  • TURNER. By W. Cosmo Monkhouse.
  • WILKIE. By J. W. Mollett, B.A., Brasenose College, Oxford.
  • LANDSEER. By Frederic G. Stephens.

The following volumes are in preparation:—

  • CORREGGIO. By M. Compton Heaton.
  • CORNELIUS and OVERBECK. By J. Beavington Atkinson.

* An Edition de luxe, containing 14 extra plates from rare engravings in the British Museum, and bound in Roxburgh style, may be had, price 10s. 6d.


Andrea Mantegna.

From the bronze bust, attributed to Sperandio, in Sant’ Andrea, Mantua.


The whole world without Art would be one great wilderness.

MANTEGNA
AND
FRANCIA

By JULIA CARTWRIGHT
AUTHOR OF “VARALLO AND HER PAINTER,” ETC.

NEW YORK
SCRIBNER AND WELFORD
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
1881

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