After serving as an apprentice to a tailor named Francesco Squarcione, who seems to have adopted him, he entered the service of Ludovico Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua.
After serving as an apprentice to a tailor named Francesco Squarcione, who seems to have adopted him, he entered the service of Ludovico Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua. He served the Gonzagas for all but two years of his career, the exception being a stint in Rome beginning in 1488 when he did a cycle of frescoes for Pope Innocent VIII. FTP, identify this painter, who was born in Vicenza, whose works include the Saint Zeno altarpiece, The Triumph of Caesar, Saint Sebastian, and a Dead Christ notable for its foreshortening.
After serving as an apprentice to a tailor named Francesco Squarcione, who seems to have adopted him, he entered the service of Ludovico Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua.
Andrea {Mantegna}