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Andrea Mantegna Among the most idiosyncratic artists of the quattrocento, Andrea Mantegna (1430/1431–1506) crafted a signature style of great sophistication based on familiarity with classical antiquity. A gifted painter and pioneering draftsman, Mantegna practiced a uniquely crisp and sculptural interpretation of Renaissance precepts. These attributes developed during Mantegna’s formative years in Padua, a northern Italian center of humanist scholarship annexed by the Venetian state in 1405. Mantegna’s vocabulary of ancient motifs embodies the theories of the Italian architect and humanist Leon Battista Alberti (1404– 1472), whose treatises are the seminal theoretical writings on art and architecture of the fifteenth century. Alberti’s concept of disegno, which embraced rational compositional order, including an insistence on sharply drawn forms, is the basis of central Italian art. Venetian painting, upholding colore—the supremacy of color and animated brushwork, often at the expense of form—developed in sharp contrast to this aesthetic. Mantegna’s illustrious reputation would have brought him to the attention of sixteenth-century Venetian masters even if he had not been the brother-in-law of Giovanni Bellini, Venice’s leading artist circa 1500. Mantegna’s work offered technical lessons in aggressive perspective and his life served as an example of individual fame; both would have struck a resonant chord with the great Venetian rivals of the cinquecento.