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SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person

During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading

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MANTEGNA & CULTURAL REVOLUTION: Psychology of Perspective

After all not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free, To fill the: gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire, Not … Continue reading

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MANTEGNA: ANCIENT RITES MEET CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES …

… or agonies in the Garden.He antagonized conventional orthodox theology. Mantegna was one of the most important historical thinkers of his time. He brought to his understanding of painting as historical narrative, a new sense of the past, like that … Continue reading

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MANTEGNA’S PERSPECTIVE of DISTORTION: Between the Sinister and Mysterious

The most devoted lovers of Florentine art complain that as a stylist Mantegna lacks the breath and freedom  and, as an expressive artist, the human warmth that the Tuscans offer. They cannot see that Mantegna’s rejection of movement and fluidity … Continue reading

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