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"Mantegna" at the Musée du Louvre
Eni is the Mécène Principal of the exhibition "Mantegna (1431-1506)", alt the Musée du Louvre in Paris from 26 September 2008 to 5 January 2009.
For first time in France a monographic exhibition will cover, with a chronological range of 190 masterpieces, the period and works one of the most representative artists of the Italian renaissance and an artist who contributed to the renewal of figurative language in Italy and across Europe.
The exhibition met with wide public acclaim: 320,586 visitors, a daily average of 3,728, an exceptional figure, above all, when compared with recent exhibitions at the Louvre in the 2008 season. The exhibition also benefited from extensive press coverage. As well as numerous radio and television broadcasts, around 286 articles were published: 47 in the specialised press, 43 in national a regional newspapers, 25 in weeklies, 32 in monthlies and 136 in the foreign press.
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Following the great exhibitions in London and New York in 1992, the exhibition at the Louvre will be a chronological retrospective of the work of Mantenga. The French museum, that owns the world's largest collection of works by Mantegna, has also obtained exceptional loans of some well-know paintings by the artist such as Saint John the Baptist from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and The Triumph of Ceasar, from Hampton Court.
The artist's original and sometimes audacious use of perspective, scenic monumentality, plasticity and the sharpness of the figures depicted show a profound familiarity with ancient art, achieved during his years of training and determining the uniqueness of his work.
In Italy, from 16 September 2006 to 14 January 2007, the National Committee for the celebration of the fifth centenary of the artist's death, celebrated Andrea Mantegna with exhibitions in each of the cities in which the presence of both the artist and his work is well documented: Padua, Verona and Mantua.
Eni was the main sponsor of the exhibition in Mantua, the city in which Mantegna spent his most decisive artistic period. Around sixty works were on show at the Palazzo Te showing the influence that his work had on the generation of artists that succeeded him.
"The Culture of Energy and The Energy of Culture", reflects the idea behind Eni's commitment to the promotion of artistic, cultural and musical events in the countries in which it operates and its role as the Mécène Principal of the "Mantegna" exhibition is further evidence of this commitment.
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A visionary artist, Andrea Mantegna used a range of techniques and experimented with different genres. An eclectic genius, the Italian artist was an expert in drawing, miniatures, painting on wood and on canvas, and sculpture.
In Italy, Mantegna was also the initiator of engraving, a technique that rapidly won him fame across Europe. Called the "primo pictore del mondo", he left to posterity a heritage that went well beyond the borders of Italy , spreading all across Europe.
Andrea Mantegna was born at Isola di Carturo,in 1431. In 1441 the boy Andrea was registered in Padua as the adopted son of the painter Francesco Squarcione and enrolled in the painters' guild of that city.
He was influenced by the artists of his time and became, in turn, a source of inspiration for many French artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including Pousssin and, much later, Degas. The Louvre's exhibition will present and highlight this influence.
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