This master showed painters a much better method of foreshortening figures from below upwards, which was truly a difficult and ingenious invention; and he also took delight, as has been said, in engraving figures on copper for printing, a method of truly rare value, by means of which the world has been able to see not only the Bacchanalia, the Battle of Marine Monsters, the Deposition from the Cross, the Burial of Christ, and His Resurrection, with Longinus and S. Andrew, works by Mantegna himself, but also the manners of all the craftsmen who have ever lived.

JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES
(After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Dublin: National Gallery)
Mansell
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INDEX OF NAMES OF THE CRAFTSMEN MENTIONED IN VOLUME III

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Literally, Hospice for God's poor.