that the body seems curiously, almost grotesquely, foreshortened; this looks like the body of a dead dwarf, with a large and over-heavy ... Ecce homo indeedy. Andrea Mantegna was one of the ...

IN THE 15th century, Paolo Uccello’s groundbreaking investigation of perspective not only drastically transformed the visual arts — painting in particular — it also mirrored political change, with the ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 17 - A Deposition of Christ whose recent restoration has enabled a definite attribution to Renaissance master Andrea ... by Mantegna". photo: Mantegna's Dead Christ, celebrated ...