Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy.

Mantegna was a pioneer of spatial illusionism, using virtuosic effects of visual distortion to generate uncanny impressions of three-dimensional depth within two-dimensional surfaces. Andrea Mantegna, painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy. Andrea Mantegna had a keen interest in the culture of ancient Rome, and he was acquainted with many scholars who collected and studied Roman antiquities. The Camera degli Sposi ("bridal chamber"), sometimes known as the Camera picta ("painted chamber"), is a room frescoed with illusionistic paintings by Andrea Mantegna in the Ducal Palace in Mantua. Andrea Mantegna married Nicolosia Bellini in 1453, and his work influenced that of her brothers Giovanni and Gentile Bellini , who also became famous masters of Italian Renaissance painting. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi ("Room of the Bride and Groom"), or Camera Picta ("Painted Room") (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, for which he developed a self-consistent illusion of a total environment. Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe l'oeil, perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on an otherwise two-dimensional or mostly flat ceiling surface above the viewer.

Andrea Mantegna - Andrea Mantegna - Years as court painter in Mantua: Mantegna has been characterized as strongly jealous of his independence; yet by entering the service of the marchese di Montova (Mantua), Ludovico Gonzaga, in 1459, he was forced to submit to limitations on his freedom of travel and acceptance of commissions from other patrons.
Last, but certainly not least, here comes Andrea Mantegna, widely regarded as one of the greatest illusionists of the century.

Examples of illusionism during these two epochs, preceded by Mantegna's work, include Antonio da Correggio's Assumption of the Virgin (1526-30), Giovanni Battista Gaulli's Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1678-79) and Andrea Pozzo's Glorification of Saint Despite such restrictions, Mantegna …
It was painted between 1465 and 1474 and commissioned by Ludovico Gonzaga, and is notable for the use of trompe l'oeil details and its di sotto in sù ceiling. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi (“Room of the Bride and Groom”), or Camera Picta (“Painted Room”) (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, for