Volume 56, Number 1 · January 15, 2009
Sacred, Earthy & Sublime
By Andrew Butterfield
Mantegna, 1431–1506
an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, September 26, 2008– January 5, 2009.
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Giovanni Agosti and Dominique Thiébaut
Paris: Hazan/Musée du Louvre Éditions, 480 pp., E42.00
Giovanni Bellini
an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, September 30, 2008– January 11, 2009
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Mauro Lucco and Giovanni C.F. Villa
Milan: Silvana, 383 pp., E35.00 (paper)
In the latter half of the fifteenth century, the artists Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini ruled over painting in northern Italy. Closely related—Mantegna was married to Bellini's sister—the painters sometimes took great interest in each other's work, and occasionally made pictures of the same subject matter. Yet they pursued almost wholly dissimilar visions of professional and artistic success. In nearly every aspect of their art, from their sources of inspiration to the media they painted in and the themes they explored, they made choices of a markedly different character.
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