Several men can be seen carving into Basalt in the background of this artist's Madonna of the Queries, and he worked on the so called Camera Picta in the Palazzo Ducale under the patronage of Ludovico II Gonzaga. Works by this artist of Court Scene in Belvedere Chapel, including Baptism and Virgin and Child With Saints, were destroyed with the chur
Several men can be seen carving into Basalt in the background of this artist's Madonna of the Queries, and he worked on the so called Camera Picta in the Palazzo Ducale under the patronage of Ludovico II Gonzaga. Works by this artist of Court Scene in Belvedere Chapel, including Baptism and Virgin and Child With Saints, were destroyed with the church. His works in the Eremitani Church included The Baptism of Hermogenes and a series of works that depicted events in the life of (*) St. James were destroyed during World War II. He looked to texts by Plutarch, Appian and Suetonius for inspiration to complete his set of nine canvases depicting the victories of a Roman emperor. For 10 points, name this Renaissance artist of the Triumphs of Caesar series who is most famous for his use of foreshortening in a work in which the viewer looks directly at the feet of the titular character, The Dead Christ.
Several men can be seen carving into Basalt in the background of this artist's Madonna of the Queries, and he worked on the so called Camera Picta in the Palazzo Ducale under the patronage of Ludovico II Gonzaga.
Andrea {Mantegna}