Mantegna's pre-1448 years reexamined : the S. Sofia inscription

Author

Shaw, Keith V.; Boccia-Shaw, Theresa M.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art bulletin. 1989, Num. 1, Vol. 71, p. 47-57

ISSN

0004-3079

Abstract (en)

Modern scholarship identifies Andrea Mantegna as an artist of exceptional precocity. This reputation depends on the credibility of a single document: a sixteenth-century transcription of an epigraph on the S. Sofia altarpiece (now lost) alleging that the artist was seventeen years old in 1448. The analysis presented here disproves the inscription's authenticity, thus reopening the question of Mantegna's birth date. In the light of these findings, the second half of the article reviews documentation on Mantegna's pre-1448 career--a virtually unstudied period in this important artist's activity.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Italy
• Italy
• Painting
• Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506
• Chronology
• 1400-1500

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Italie
• Italie
• Peinture
• Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506
• Chronologie
• 1400-1500

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00446352

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