Andrea Mantegna. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)

The Nation | June 29, 1992| | Copyright

Andrea Mantegna's name turns up in an exceedingly short list of what Ariosto's readers would recognize as history's greatest artists, in the opening verses of Canto XXXIII of his Orlando Furioso. It would be essential to the poet's argument that the artists cited be as great as possible, since he wants to claim that there are things even the best of them cannot depict, namely, the shape of things to come. For that, he argues, there must be recourse to magic. It is in any case plain from the fact that Mantegna is mentioned in the same lyrical breath as Leonardo, Michelangelo ...

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