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Study of Four Saints (Peter, Paul, John the Evangelist, and Zeno)
Creator
Andrea MantegnaItalian Artist · 1431–1506
All works by this person →Painter, draftsman, and printmaker Andrea Mantegna was born near Padua, Italy, around 1431. At the age of eleven, he entered the workshop of Francesco Squarcione, who legally adopted him after the death of his father. At seventeen, Mantegna won his independence from Squarcione after bringing him to court for exploitation and fraud. During the fifteenth century, Padua's intellectual climate and rel
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- 1456–1459
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, traces of red chalk
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Andrea Mantegna made this drawing as a preparatory study for the left side panel of an altarpiece, still in the church of San Zeno in Verona, which he painted between 1456 and 1459. Although the drawing is highly finished, it was evidently made at an early stage of the design, since Mantegna subsequently changed the saints' positions. From left to right, the four saints are Peter, Paul, John the Evangelist, and Zeno. Saint Zeno, the patron and titular saint of Verona, wears a mitre, a bishop's liturgical headgear.
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