Though first documented in 1449 as a painter in a workshop in Venice, Lazzaro Bastiani may have received his youthful training in Padua. His early paintings show the influence of Andrea Mantegna's style, with an interest in classical antiquity and rounded, sculptural forms. In Venice, Bastiani seems to have gravitated into the circle of artists working around Mantegna's in-laws, the Bellini family
