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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Mantegna, Cristo Morto, Brera, Milano -- 1460

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Foreshortened view, of a boldness without precedent in the history of painting, Mantegna's "Dead Christ" produces an impression of singular intensity.

It is very characteristic of the art of this painter, who incarnated the spirit of his times to the highest degree and was also passionately interested in perspective and the art of classical Antiquity.

At first strongly influenced by Donatello, he have his work such a pecularly sculptural quality that they seem to be of bronze or stone.

Mantegna played a most improtant part in the evolution of Italian painting, by acting as a liknk between the Florentine school from which, though a Paduan himself, he had learned much, and the Venetian school with which he was in contact through his marriage to the sister of painter Giovanni Bellini.

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