Andrea Mantegna: The Adoration Of The Magi; Author: Carr, Dawson W.; Paperback

Author: Carr, Dawson W.
Getty Museum Studies on Art; Paperback; 20 Colour and 50 B&w Illustrations, 1 Colour Fold-
96 pages
Published: November 1997
Getty Trust Publications
ISBN: 0892362871

This series introduces individual works or small groups of closely related works in the Museum's collections to a broad public. Each monograph includes a close discussion of its subject as well as a detailed analysis of the broader context in which the work was created, considering relevant historical, cultural, and chronological issues.Explores Mantegna's life and milieu in fifteenth-century Padua, the influence on the artist's career of the revolutionary theoretical ideas of his time, comparable works by Mantegna as well as other artists, and the significance of the subject matter in Christian theology.Explores Mantegna's life and milieu, the influence of the revolutionary theoretical ideas of his time, and the theological significance of the subject matter. Also discussed are Mantegna's innovative treatment of the subject, the relationship of the narrative to the viewer, and conservation.