Nghệ sĩ: Mantegna
ngày: 1495
kích thước: 56 x 48 cm
viện bảo tàng: Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, United States)
Kỹ thuật: Canvas
This almost perfectly preserved painting by Andrea Mantegna, showing the dialogue between a crowned woman and a bearded, turbaned man, has defied attempts to uncover either its subject or its meaning. Research suggests the woman represents either a queen (perhaps Esther from the Old Testament) or a sibyl. The man may be either a prophet, a philosopher, the biblical Mordecai, or Tarquin. They speak together in front of a decorated pilaster reminiscent of ancient architecture but also current in the Renaissance. The artist rendered the figures and background are rendered in a delicate monochrome technique and highlighted them with actual gold to imitate the effect of a gilded bronze relief sculpture. Some scholars have suggested that the painting was made for the famous studiolo, or private study, of Isabella d’Este at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. The painting
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