This portrait is one of the best works of Mantegna. Slender composition helps to capture the strict appearance of the character. Mantegna uses the three-quarter model rotation method, borrowed from

On the fresco, located on the arch of a small square room, Mantegna, for the first time in Western European art, created the illusion of space going up to the

The saddest story of the Gospel author served simply and easily. The viewer lifeless, once full body forces the Son of God, over which bowed grieving woman. Picture devoid of