A history of painting in north Italy : Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century : drawn up from fresh materials after recent researches in the archives of Italy, and from personal inspection of the works of art scattered throughout Europe (1871)
Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896, Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 · London : J. Murray · leaf 473
e of the foreground. Ona square page the words: AMantinia p. an. gracie 1497, 15Augusti. The Virgin is fine andthe saints are sculptural in shapeand attitude; but we revert hereto a less pleasing art than thatof the triumphs. This piece indeedis one which influenced the laterVeronese. It is now… … J Chap. XIV. MANTEGNAS LAST DAYS. 411 whilst the taste for minutiae and the searching methodin which the parts are made out are the result of Man-tegnas frequent use of the graver. It was, we think,after his return from Eome that Andrea gave himselfup to the task of engraving his own works;1 and it…
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