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Mantua, Italy: Church of Sant'Andrea

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Sant’Andrea

church, Mantua, Italy

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paintings by Correggio

In Correggio: Early life and career
…Mantegna’s family chapel in the church of Sant’Andrea at Mantua after the artist’s death. It seems certain that the two round paintings, or tondi, of the Entombment of Christ and Madonna and Saints are by the young Correggio. Although his early works are pervaded with his knowledge of Mantegna’s art,…
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Renaissance architecture

In Western architecture: Early Renaissance in Italy (1401–95)
…Mantua in the church of Sant’Andrea (begun 1472, completed in the 18th century), an early Renaissance masterpiece that was to exert much influence on later religious architecture. It is important as a brilliant application of the ancient Roman triumphal arch motif both to the facade of a church and to…
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