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Mantegna and his cohort were assigned the task of painting scenes from the life of Saint James. In the end, Mantegna took control of the project and did much of the work. This was an early period in Mantegna’s career, as he was only 17 years old when he began painting the frescoes. Later in his career, Mantegna moved to the Gonzaga court in ...

Andrea Mantegna, Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, no. 140, repro., as Judith with the Head of Holofernes after Andrea Mantegna (shown only in London). 1992 Il Giardino di San Marco: Maestri e Compagni del Giovane Michelangelo, Casa Buonarroti, Florence, 1992, no. 4, color repro. 2005

Mantegna brought all three developments together in his paintings. He was a master of perspective, and was one of the first to experiment with low vantage points, as in his frescos on the martyrdom of St. James in the Ovetari chapel in the church of the Eremitani in Padua (we show black and white photos, because the chapel was destroyed in 1944 by a bomb - a mis-directed American one!).

This canvas is the first of a series of nine painted by Andrea Mantegna depicting The Triumphs of Caesar.Trumpeters herald the arrival of the triumphal procession celebrating the victories of Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars (55–50 BC). They are followed by men bearing flags and streamers. Ot...