The Infant Savior
Andrea Mantegna
c. 1460
Medium
tempera on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 70.2 x 34.3 cm (27 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.) framed: 86.4 x 51.4 x 7 cm (34 x 20 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-R
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1952.5.67
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna · 1431–1506
Andrea Mantegna was born around 1431 near Padua, in the Venetian Republic, the son of a carpenter. At approximately age eleven he was taken into the workshop of the Paduan painter and antiquities collector Francesco Squarcione, who enrolled him as a guild member and immersed him in the study of Roman sculpture and classical Latin. Though Mantegna later claimed that Squarcione had exploited his lab...