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Mantegna and Francia

Chapter 28: FRANCIA.
By Julia Cartwright
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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.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

CROWE and CAVALCASELLE. A history of painting in North Italy. London, 1871.

MILANESI, Gaetano. Le opere di Giorgio Vasari; con nuove annotazioni e Commenti di Milanesi. Firenze, 1879.

MANTEGNA.

GOETHE, J. W. von. Triumphzug von Mantegna. Werke, XXXIX.

ARCO, Carlo d’. Delle Arti e degli Artifici di Mantova, notizie raccolte ed illustrate con disegni e con documenti. Mantova, 1859.

BASCHET, Armand. Documents sur Mantegna. In the “Gazette des Beaux Arts.” Paris, 1866.

BRAGHIROLLI, Willelmo. Alcuni documenti inedite relative ad Andrea Mantegna: in the “Giornale d’Erudizione Artistica.” Perugia, 1872.

BRUN, Karl. Neue Documente über Andrea Mantegna: in the “Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst,” vol. xi. Leipzig, 1875-6.

WOLTMANN, Dr. Alfred. Biography of Andrea Mantegna in the “Kunst und Künstler des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit.” Edited by Dr. Robert Dohme. Leipzig, 1876.

FRANCIA.

CALVI, Jacopo Alessandro. Memorie della vita ed opere di Francesco Raibolini. Bologna, 1812.

MALVASIA, Carlo Cesare. Felsina Pittrice. Vite de Pittori Bolognesi. Bologna, 1841.

GIORDANI, Gaetano. Catalogo dei Quadri della Pinacoteca. Bologna, 1841.

AMORINI, Antonio Bolognini, Marchese, Vite dei Pittori ed Artefici Bolognesi. Bologna, 1841-43.

FRIZZONI, Gustavo. Gli Affreschi di Santa Cecilia in Bologna. Bologna, 1876.