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Revising Mantegna |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Jason Edward Kaufman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,213 Words, 13,908 Characters |
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In 1475, one Simone di Ardizone of Reggio, a painter and engraver, sent a letter of complaint to Ludovico Gonzaga, Marchese of Mantua, in which he demanded the arrest of Andrea Mantegna. Simone had just been in Mantua where Mantegna, the leading painter at the Gonzaga court, made him all kinds of "offers," presumably for Simone to make engravings after some drawings. But Simone's Mantuan friend, the artist Zoan Andrea, had recently been robbed of his own engraved plates, so Simone agreed to help him re-create them. Mantegna had some past differences with Andrea and may in fact have been behind the theft. In any event, according to Simone:
"When that devil Andrea Mantegna learned I was remaking the said plates, he sent to threaten me a Florentine, swearing he would pay me for it. . . ...
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...." were one and the same artist. "Z.A." does not stand for Zoan Andrea, but for "Zoan [or Zovanni] Antonio," an alternate North Italian spelling of Giovanni Antonio. Boorsch's hypotheses have been advanced at one time or another in the past, but the persuasiveness of her argument ensures that the traditional notion of Mantegna as the leader of a "school" of printmakers will never be the same.
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