Perched on the Grand Canal in Venice, the Gallerie dell'Accademia houses the world’s largest collection of Venetian art, spanning the entire Renaissance – from the 1300s to the 1700s.

Mantegna was born in the Venetian Republic in 1431 and died in 1506. He is perhaps best known for contributing to the revival of antiquity in Renaissance Italy and for the frescoes he produced ...

A blockbuster exhibition of Italian Renaissance works on paper launching ... study is characteristic of the artist; although other Venetian artists such as Tintoretto used the same technique ...