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Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to single international artists, artistic movements and painting genres. Andrea Mantegna, the painter who "was able to rise above earth and create heavenly forms which are still real" (W. Goethe). A protagonist of the renewal of the figurative language in northern Italy. An introduction to the life of the artist, with his masterpieces.