Mantegna
ANDREA (män-tān'yä), an Italian painter; born in Padua, Italy, in 1431. He was a pupil of Squarcione.
About 1459 he went to Verona, where he painted a magnificent altar piece in the Church of St. Zeno. About 1466 he removed to Mantua; the rest of his life was passed there, with the exception of two years at Rome. At Mantua he opened a school, and painted among other important works the "Triumph of Julius Cæsar," now at Hampton Court. One of "Madonna della Vittoria" now in the Louvre at Paris. Others of his works, also in the Louvre, are "Wisdom Vanquishing Vice," and a mythological work, "Parnassus." Mantegna excelled in perspective, and in engraving, and introduced the art of engraving on copper into upper Italy. He died in Mantua, in 1506. His two sons, Francesco and Carlo, were also painters. the latest and best of his works is the