Minerva can be seen wielding a staff and expelling the vices from a holy garden in his Triumph of Virtue, which, along with an oil-on-canvas showing Mars and Venus elevated above Parnassus, was painted for Isabella d'Este.
Minerva can be seen wielding a staff and expelling the vices from a holy garden in his Triumph of Virtue, which, along with an oil-on-canvas showing Mars and Venus elevated above Parnassus, was painted for Isabella d'Este. The Madonna of the Caves and Madonna della Vittoria are his best-known depictions of Mary, while the St. Luke and St. Zeno polyptychs are his most famous altarpieces. His left-oriented setting of the Agony in the Garden is often compared to that of his brother-in-law, Giovanni Bellini, and the illusory image of cherubs peering down from a cloudy sky highlights his ceiling fresco for the Camera degli Sposi. FTP, name this Northern Italian master of foreshortening and perspective, painter of the Dead Christ and a series of frescos showing the life of St. James.
Minerva can be seen wielding a staff and expelling the vices from a holy garden in his Triumph of Virtue, which, along with an oil-on-canvas showing Mars and Venus elevated above Parnassus, was painted for Isabella d'Este.
Andrea {Mantegna}