Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
Roman Catholic co-cathedral and minor basilica in Mantua, Lombardy .
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Leon Battista Alberti
Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.
Alberti was employed to design two churches in Mantua, San Sebastiano, which was never completed and for which Alberti's intention can only be speculated upon, and the Basilica of Sant'Andrea.
Giant order
Order whose columns or pilasters span two storeys.
One of the earliest uses of this feature in the Renaissance was at the Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua, designed by Leon Battista Alberti and begun in 1472; this adapted the Roman triumphal arch to a church facade.
Antonio da Correggio
The foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century.
In 1514, he probably finished three tondos for the entrance of the church of Sant'Andrea in Mantua, and then returned to Correggio, where, as an independent and increasingly renowned artist, he signed a contract for the Madonna altarpiece in the local monastery of St. Francis (now in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie).
Barrel vault
Architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve along a given distance.
However, with the coming of the Renaissance and the Baroque style, and revived interest in art and architecture of antiquity, barrel vaulting was re-introduced on a truly grandiose scale, and employed in the construction of many famous buildings and churches, such as Basilica di Sant'Andrea di Mantova by Leone Battista Alberti, San Giorgio Maggiore by Andrea Palladio, and perhaps most glorious of all, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, where a huge barrel vault spans the 27 m-wide nave.
Renaissance architecture
European architecture of the period between the early 14th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
In Mantua at the court of the Gonzaga, Alberti designed two churches, the Basilica of Sant'Andrea and San Sebastiano.
Andrea Mantegna
Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
In 1516, a handsome monument was set up to him by his sons in the church of Sant'Andrea, where he had painted the altarpiece of the mortuary chapel.
Filippo Juvarra
Italian architect, active in a late-Baroque style, who worked primarily in Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
In Mantua, he added a tall buttressed dome to the Alberti church of Sant'Andrea.
Matilda of Tuscany
Member of the House of Canossa (also known as the Attonids) and one of the most powerful nobles in Italy in the second half of the eleventh century.
By the end of 1071, Matilda had left her husband and returned to Italy, where her stay in Mantua on 19 January 1072 can be proven: there she and her mother issued a deed of donation for the Monastery of Sant'Andrea.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Mantua
Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy.
Mantua also contains the Basilica di Sant'Andrea di Mantova.