Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – 1506)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Mantegna was born in Isola di Carturo, Venetian Republic close to Padua
• At the age of eleven he became the apprentice of Paduan painter Francesco Squarcione. 
• Squarcione taught him Latin and instructed him to study fragments of Roman sculpture.
• Mantegna left his native Padua at an early age, and never returned there.
• He spent the rest of his life in Verona, Mantua and Rome.
• Mantegna was a son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
• In 1453 Jacopo consented to a marriage between Nicolosia and Mantegna.
• Mantegna was also an engraver, though his history in that respect is somewhat obscure, partly because he never signed or dated any of his plates, but for a single disputed instance of 1472.
• The account which has come down to us from Vasari is that Mantegna began engraving in Rome, prompted by the engravings produced by the Florentine Baccio Baldini after Sandro Botticelli.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Andrea Mantegna, The Infant Savior, c. 1460.
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