Definition of Mantegna

1. Noun. Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506).

Exact synonyms: Andrea Mantegna
Generic synonyms: Engraver, Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mantegna

Manson
Manson's disease
Manson's eye worm
Manson's pyosis
Manson's schistosomiasis
Mansonella demarquayi
Mansonella ozzardi
Mansonella perstans
Mansonella streptocerca
Mansonella tucumana
Mansonia
Mansonite
Mansonites
Mansonoides
Manta birostris
Mantegna (current term)
Mantegnesque
Manteidae
Mantel-Haenszel test
Mantell
Manteodea
Mantidae
Mantinea
Mantinean
Mantineans
Mantineia
Mantis religioso
Mantispidae
Mantle
Mantophasmatodea

Literary usage of Mantegna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1896)
"Milanesi bases his notes to the life of Mantegna upon these researches of the ... Charles Yriarte, Let'Gonzagues dans les Fresques du Mantegna au Castello ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"Andrea Mantegna. By Paul Kristeller. English edition hy S. Arthur Strong. ... Andrea Mantegna. By Maud Cruttwell. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1901. 4. ..."

3. Memoirs of Early Italian Painters by Jameson (Anna) (1895)
"This was ANDREA Mantegna, particularly interesting to English readers, as his most celebrated work, the Triumph of Julius Caesar, is now preserved in the ..."

4. The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily: With an Appendix Containing by George William David Evans (1835)
"As regards the art of painting, properly so called, I know of no artist who flourished at Mantua previous to Mantegna: all I can do, therefore, ..."

5. Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs (1905)
"F. Über Leben, Wirken und Werke der Maler Andrea Mantegna, etc. ... L'ART, 1886: A. Milani; Un nouveau tableau de Mantegna au Musée Brera — COURRIER DE ..."

6. The Arts and Artists, Or Anecdotes & Relics, of the Schools of Painting by James Elmes (1825)
"Mantegna was much the best painter in Europe, until Leonardo da Vinci so greatly advanced the art. It seems that the tawdry taste, brought into Italy by the ..."

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