Thursday, March 20, 2025

A RENAISSANCE REDISCOVERY IN ART HISTORY The recent scientific analysis of a mysterious painting that hung in a church in Pompeii for centuries has revealed it to be by the Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. “The restoration revealed iconographic and technical details that confirm Mantegna’s authorship, returning to art history a masterpiece that was thought lost.” A local art historian was the first who put forward the theory that the painting might be an original Mantegna. Long-Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Rediscovered in Pompeii | Artnet






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