ISI’s art history and museology Professor Francesca Marini introduces the discovery and publication of a previously unknown sheet with sketches by the Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna: “The sheet came to my hands as anonymous on a late afternoon of September 2013. It carried studies in brown ink related to the representation of a dead Christ, beautifully preserved on both sides. The quality of the sketches, both in the outstanding foreshortening and the anatomical realism of Christ’s body, were clear signs of the author’s name. Right away I connected the sketches with two other sheets by Andrea Mantegna, went to the proper shelf in my library and found them on the first exhibition catalogue I bought as an undergraduate some twenty years ago. The similarities of these sketches with the undisputed Mantegna drawings allowed the attribution to the master and were the starting point for the elaboration of the article now published by The Burlington Magazine”.

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