Abstract
The most important North Italian 15th century painter Andrea Mantegna synthesized a series of impulses: antique reliefs, contemporary Florentine painting, elements from Donatello's sculpture, paintings by Umbrian Piero della Francesca and by the Venetian Jacopo Bellini, with whose daughter he married and whose son Giovanni Bellini have been with him close in art. With its linearly sculptural style, he most evokes the ancient past of all Renaissance painters, as shown by the paintings of his Caesar's triumph.
With frescoes in Mantua's Camera degli Sposi, he broke through real architecture for the first time with its painted perspective illusion and reinforced the impression with acronyms. His paintings for Isabella d'Este showed new ways for mythological and allegorical Renaissance painting.