ave and still continues to give universal pleasure,
also satisfied the Marquis so well that he rewarded most liberally the
talent and labour of Andrea, who, having been remunerated by Princes for
all his works, was able to maintain his rank of Chevalier most
honourably up to the end of his life.

Andrea had competitors in Lorenzo da Lendinara--who was held in Padua to
be an excellent painter, and who also wrought some things in terra-cotta
for the Church of S. Antonio--and in certain others of no great worth.
He was ever the friend of Dario da Treviso and Marco Zoppo of Bologna,
since he had been brought up with them under the discipline of
Squarcione. For the Friars Minor of Padua this Marco painted a loggia
which serves as their chapter-house; and at Pesaro he painted a panel
that is now in the new Church of S. Giovanni Evangelista; besides
portraying in a picture Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, at the time when he
was Captain of the Florentines. A friend of Mantegna's, likewise, was
Stefano, a painter of Ferrara, whose works were few but passing good;
and by his hand is the adornment of the sarcophagus of S. Anthony to be
seen in Padua, with the Virgin Mary, that is called the Vergine del
Pilastro.

But to return to Andrea himself; he built a very beautiful house in
Mantua for his own use, which he adorned with paintings and enjoyed
while he lived. Finally he died in 1517, at the age of sixty-six, and
was buried with honourable obsequies in S. Andrea; and on his tomb, over
which stands his portrait in bronze, there was placed the following
epitaph:

ESSE PAREM HUNC NORIS, SI NON PRAEPONIS, APELLI;
AENEA MANTINEAE QUI SIMULACRA VIDES.

Andrea was so kindly and praiseworthy in all his actions, that his
memory will ever live, not only in his own country, but in the whole
world; wherefore he well deserved, no less for the sweetness of his ways
than for his excellence in painting, to be celebrated by Ariosto at the
beginning of his thirty-third canto, where he numbers him among the most
illustrious painters of his time, saying:

Leonardo, Andrea Mantegna, Gian Bellino.

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