Andrea Mantegna

Camera degli Sposi, Dead Christ

The most rigorously classical painter of the Quattrocento. His Dead Christ — foreshortened feet-first toward the viewer — is the most audacious exercise in perspective in all Renaissance painting. The Camera degli Sposi in Mantua is the first fully illusionistic room decoration.

Key works

• Dead Christ~1480— Radical foreshortening — grief in perspective
  Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Camera degli Sposi1474— Illusionistic room — the ceiling opens to the sky
  Palazzo Ducale, Mantua

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