Andrea Mantegna
1431 (Isola di Cartura) / 1506 (Mantoue)
"Like Picasso who never stops finding, Mantegna never stops surprising, and does so deliberately. His most intense works of the 1480s-1490s, his "Dead Christ" in Milan and his "Saint Sebastian" in the Louvre, in their ochre-brown monochromatism, their staggering research into perspective and their decadence with cut-out figures, may well be compared to the great Spaniard's most hermetic Cubist works. They have the same incomprehensible aspect of "sunken cathedrals" and practice the same search for a new space - in one case with the perspective, then incipient, in the other case, against the perspective become moribund."
Emmanuel Daydé, Art Absolument n°26, September 2008
"Like Picasso who never stops finding, Mantegna never stops surprising, and does so deliberately. His most intense works of the 1480s-1490s, his "Dead Christ" in Milan and his "Saint Sebastian" in the Louvre, in their ochre-brown monochromatism, their staggering research into perspective and their decadence with cut-out figures, may well be compared to the great Spaniard's most hermetic Cubist works. They have the same incomprehensible aspect of "sunken cathedrals" and practice the same search for a new space - in one case with the perspective, then incipient, in the other case, against the perspective become moribund."
Emmanuel Daydé, Art Absolument n°26, September 2008
Artist's exhibitions
De Dürer à Mantegna, Gravures Renaissance de la collection Leber.
30/09/2010 - 28/11/2010(Reims) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
