Art: The Glory of Mantua

In the middle of the 15th century, few cities in Christendom bustled with such prosperity as Mantua, and few princelings patronized the arts so diligently as the Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga. His court painter was Andrea Mantegna. and the walls and ceilings of his grim Gothic castle boasted some of the master's finest work. This week, in that same castle, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi opens an exhibition that should restore to

Mantua some of the glory it knew 500 years ago. Of the 70 known Mantegna paintings scattered over the world, 45 have been brought...

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