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 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. [Illustration: JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES (_After the painting by =Andrea Mantegna=. Dublin: National Gallery_) _Mansell_] FOOTNOTES: [29] This seems to be a printer's or copyist's error for Prefetto. [30] Andrea dal Castagno. INDEX OF NAMES OF THE CRAFTSMEN MENTIONED IN VOLUME III Abbot of S. Clemente (Don Bartolommeo della Gatta), _Life_, 203-209. 188 Agnolo, Baccio d', 12 Agnolo di Donnino, 189, 190 Agnolo di Lorenzo (Angelo di Lorentino), 209 Agnolo di Polo, 273, 274 Alberti, Leon Batista, _Life_, 43-48 Albrecht Duerer, 214