The Dead Christ 1490 - a photo on Flickriver

            Andrea Mantegna
1431-Sept 13, 1506
Tempera on Canvas

Mantegna was a member of the famous Bellini family married to  Jacopo Bellini's daughter and therefore becoming the brother-in-law of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. They were all world class Venetian painters with Giovanni often placed in the airy category of High Renaissance all-stars, Georgine, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian and Raphael. 

Mantegna's figures often look like sculpture. This painting is a fine example of foreshortening, a style the artist uses that has the objects in the picture drawn smaller as the distance from the observer increases and there is a unseen vanishing point. 

However the artist did not follow the rules of foreshortening completely, the Dead Christ's feet, being painted deliberately much smaller, otherwise they would have obscured the view of his body.
   

Taken on: April 10, 2009

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