Andrea Mantegna
1431 (Isola di Cartura) / 1506 (Mantoue)
"Like Picasso who never stops finding, Mantegna never stops surprising, and does so deliberately. His most intense works of the 1480s-1490s, his "Dead Christ" in Milan and his "Saint Sebastian" in the Louvre, in their ochre-brown monochromatism, their staggering research into perspective and their decadence with cut-out figures, may well be compared to the great Spaniard's most hermetic Cubist works. They have the same incomprehensible aspect of "sunken cathedrals" and practice the same search for a new space - in one case with the perspective, then incipient, in the other case, against the perspective become moribund."
Emmanuel Daydé, Art Absolument n°26, September 2008
"Like Picasso who never stops finding, Mantegna never stops surprising, and does so deliberately. His most intense works of the 1480s-1490s, his "Dead Christ" in Milan and his "Saint Sebastian" in the Louvre, in their ochre-brown monochromatism, their staggering research into perspective and their decadence with cut-out figures, may well be compared to the great Spaniard's most hermetic Cubist works. They have the same incomprehensible aspect of "sunken cathedrals" and practice the same search for a new space - in one case with the perspective, then incipient, in the other case, against the perspective become moribund."
Emmanuel Daydé, Art Absolument n°26, September 2008
Artist's exhibitions
De Dürer à Mantegna, Gravures Renaissance de la collection Leber.
30/09/2010 - 28/11/2010
(Reims) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
30/09/2010 - 28/11/2010
(Reims) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
artist_books
Coffret: Homme en perspective; Homme en jeu
Daniel Arasse Hazan Ces deux textes réédités et illustrées, fruits d’études approfondies publiées pour la première fois en 1979 et 1980 respectivement, se distinguent par l’approche hétérodoxe dont Daniel Arasse, éminent historien de l’art et spécialiste de la Renaissance italienne, s’est fait maître. La grande vertu de ces ouvrages réside dans la générosité de cet a ...