Andrea Mantegna

Italian painter and engraver. His painting is influenced by his encounter with works of sculpture, in particular with those of the Tuscan sculptor Donatello.

• 1431

  Born as the son of a carpenter on the Isola di Carturo (north of Padua)

• 1442–48

  Apprenticeship with Francesco Squarcione (1397-1468) in Padua

• 1448–51

  Andrea Mantegna: Saint Mark the Evangelist,
  about 1448, egg tempera on canvas, 81,1 x 63,6 cm

  
  © Städel Museum – U. Edelmann – ARTOTHEK

• 1453

  Marriage with Nicolosia Bellini

• 1460

  Court painter to the Gonzaga in Mantua

• 1460-64

  Andrea Mantegna: The Death of the Virgin,
  about 1460-64, egg tempera on panel, 54,5 x 42 cm
  
  © Photographic Archive, Museo Nacional del Prado

• 1500-02

  Andrea Mantegna: Minerva expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue, about 1500-02, egg tempera on canvas, 159 x 192 cm

  
  © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Gérard Blot

• 1506

  Dies on 13 September 1506 in Mantua