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This painting is one of nine canvases known as The Triumphs of Caesar, which can be counted amongst the finest achievements in Italian Renaissance art. They were probably painted for Franceso II Gonzaga (1466-1519), who became the 4th Marquis of Mantua in 1484. The nine paintings form a sequence, which should really be called the Triumph of Caesar, because it depicts a single procession ...

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. The Lamentation of Christ (also known as the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, or the Dead Christ and other variants) is a painting of about 1480 by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. While the dating of the piece is debated, it was completed between 1475 and 1501, probably in the early 1480s. [1]

Andrea Mantegna. (Isla de Carturo, actual Italia, 1431 - Mantua, id., 1506) Pintor italiano. El pintor Francesco Squarcione lo tomó a su cargo en calidad de hijo adoptivo y lo introdujo en el arte de la pintura. Pero cuando contaba diecisiete años, Mantegna, que no quería seguir trabajando para su mentor, le obligó por vía legal a ...

Catalogue Raisonné. References. Title: The Entombment of Christ. Artist: Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua) Date: before 1475. Medium: Engraving and drypoint; second state of two. Dimensions: Plate: 11 7/16 × 16 3/8 in. (29 × 41.6 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937.