Centuriespast: Lunardi’s Second Balloon Ascending From St George’s Fields, 1785 By Julius Caesar Ibbetson Date Painted: 1785–1790 Oil On Canvas, 52 X 62 Cm Collection: Science Museum, London
italianartsociety: Italian painter and printmaker Andrea Mantegna died on this day in 1506 in Mantua, where he had served the Gonzaga dukes as court artist for almost half a century. Mantegna, one of the leading artists of the later Quattrocento, is
