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 MANTOVAXO est extant work, but the altarpiece of St. Luke and Saints (1454), at the Brera, Milan, painted for S. Giustiua at Padua, is the first which displays the master's character- Marys (1474), Brera, and a Madonna (1485), in the collection of Sir Charles Eastlake, preceded the famous Triumph of Julius Ccesar ; probably of the same period (1485?) istics. It and the St. Euphemia, in the is the Madonna with Angels, identified re- Museum at Naples, are the only represeuta- cently, in the Brera, Milan. Called to Home tives of his early Paduaii period. After in 1488 by Innocent VIII., Mantegna re- 1448 Mantegna began to paint a continu- mained there two years, during which ho atiou of the Life of St. James, begun by, painted some now destroyed frescos in the Pizzolo, in the Church of the Eremitani,, Chapel of the Vatican ; a Madonna, Uffi/ci ; Padua. The Saint exorcising the Devils, j Parnassus, Wisdom victorious over Vice.*, and Called from his Nets were probably | Louvre ; Man of Sorrows, Copenhagen. designed and partly executed by Mantcgua, j The Assumption, in the Trivulzi Gallery, Mi- but those of James Baptizing, and on his Ian, was painted in 1407, and the Madon- Trial, as well as the rest of the chapel, are i na della Vittoria, Louvre, about the same altogether his work. They show a close [ time. In the National Gallery, London, are study of the antique, as well as minute ob- ' the Triumph of Scipio, Summer and Au- servation of common nature, and are char- ! tumn, Samson and Delilah, and a Madonna acterized by an excessive display of scieu- with Saints ; in the Historical Society, New tific knowledge. The human form, regarded York, a Crucifixion, and an Adoration of as a geometrical unit, is treated architect u- the Magi. The latter years of Mautegna's rally, and perspective is carried so far by the life at Mantua were full of trouble, on ac- precipitation of the lines that the inner parts count of the banishment of his son Fran- of all the figures, excepting those on the cesco and his greatly reduced circumstances. very edge of the foreground, are concealed. His tomb in the Church of S. Andrea is In no other painter's works are to be found, marked by an admirable portrait bust in so strange a mixture of classic feeling, real- : bronze, perhaps the work of the great med- ism, and science, combined with rare dra- j allist Sperandio. His second son, Fran- matic power and intensity of life, as in those ] cesco (1479 after 1517), was the painter of Mantegua ; whose style may be studied, of a Noli Me Tangere, and a Resurrection, to advantage, not only in his paintings, but in the National Gallery, London. Art Jour- m the few precious engravings which he ex- j ual (1882), 225; C. & C., N. Italy, i. ; En- ecuted on copper after 1468. About 1460 gerth, Belved. Gal., i. 200 ; Gaz. des B. Arts Mantegua entered the service of Luigi Gon- ' (1866), xx. 478 ; Keaue, Early Masters, 373 ; zaga, Marquis of Mantua, but he did not Liibke, Gesch. d. ital. Mai., i. 458 ; Vasari, take up his residence there until 1471. In ' ed. Mil., iii. 383, 413 ; Bartsch, Le Peintre 1459 he painted the Madonna of San Zeno, Graveur, xiii. 222 ; Willshire, Int. to Ancient Verona, and the Christ in the Garden, Bar- ' Prints, 438 ; W. & W., ii. 258 ; Zeitschr. f. ing Collection. The Madonna, and the Prex- b. K, x. 190 ; xi. 23, 54 ; xv. 61 ; xvi. 110 ; entation in the Temple, Berlin Museum, the ' xvii. 197 ; xxi. 101. St. George, Venice Academy, and the admi- rable St. Sebastian, Vienna Museum, belong MANTOVANO, IL. See Fcti, Domenico. MANUEL, NICOLAUS, called Deutsch, to the years 1464-66. Between 1471 and, born in Berne about 1484, died there, April 1474 Mantegua decorated the walls of the 30, 1530. German school ; history painter, so-called Camera de' Sposi in the Castello about whose artistic training nothing is at Mantua with pictures in distemper, one known. His family name was Alleman, of of which represents the Marquis of Gonzaga which Deutsch is a translation. Elected and his family. The dead Christ and the | member of the Great Senate of Berne in