Consider, for a minute, what must be Mantegna's most famous image, of the dead Christ viewed in steep foreshortening ... from the set of woodcuts made by Andrea Andreani in the late sixteenth ...

Or is this dramatic use of foreshortening playing tricks with ... Ecce homo indeedy. Andrea Mantegna was one of the master painters and engravers of the northern Italian Renaissance.

The paintings, drawings and works on paper of two giants of the early Italian Renaissance—Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni ... he was a master of foreshortening. Bellini was a master of light ...

In 1480, Andrea Mantegna perfected a technique new to artists: foreshortening. In his famous painting, “The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ,” Christ’s body looks short because of how it ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 17 - A Deposition of Christ whose recent restoration has enabled a definite attribution to Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna ... for its dramatic foreshortening technique ...

Andrea Mantegna, a carpenter's son from Padua with ... in the Second World War), he played with perspective and extreme foreshortening to whip up drama. Repeatedly, he faced the charge that ...