Andrea Mantegna, as artist in residence at …
Years: 1474 - 1474
Andrea Mantegna, as artist in residence at the Gonzaga's ducal palace in Mantua, decorates the “Camera degli Sposi,” completed in 1474 with frescoes that display another bold experiment in perspective illusion.
Mantegna portrays the Gonzaga family and their court sitting or standing about the walls of the room as though they occupy a high loggia that logically extends the space of the chamber.
On the ceiling he paints a circular "opening" to a "sky" surrounded by a balustrade, over which laughing women peer down and along which nude boys play.
Andrea Mantegna: portraits of the Gonzaga family in the Camera degli Sposi (literally, "Wedding Chamber") of Palazzo Ducale, Mantua.
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Years: 1474 - 1474
Andrea Mantegna: portraits of the Gonzaga family in the Camera degli Sposi (literally, "Wedding Chamber") of Palazzo Ducale, Mantua.
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