Painting of an old man by Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter whose birth date is not provided but birth year was around 1431 and is said to have died in September 13 1506. Mantegna was an artist who experimented with perspective and was 

very successful in that element of art. 

Mantegna's piece the "Lamentation of Christ" (image on the left) in my opinion is his best painting which portrays perspective. The piece displays the body of Christ on a marble slap. The notable people who seem to be weeping for his death are the Virgin Mary and Saint John. This painting initially looks like it portrays an exact perspective of the figure of the marble slab. However, it is said that careful scrutiny has revealed that Mantegna reduced to size of the figures feet because if this was not done, the feet would have covered most of the body, especially the thorax which seems to be the main part of the body that creates most of the foreshortened look.