Andrea Mantegna is conventionally credited with the invention of perspectival ceiling painting with his fresco cycle (1465-74) in the Camera degli Sposi or Camera Picta in the Gonzaga Palace in ...

She is “Saint Euphemia”, thrown to wild beasts in 303, and depicted by the young Andrea Mantegna in Padua ... for the cuboid “Camera Picta” in Mantua’s ducal palace.