Andrea Mantegna’s house it has been defined as “one of the most intriguing and absolute buildings of the Renaissance”, “a very simple body, not Albertian, but of a Lauranesque clarity pushed to even more absolute conclusions”. There is nothing accidental in these two different ways of approaching the architectural complex that Andrea Mantegna wanted to design so that it would be both his home and his workshop. They express the complex impression that arises from the analysis of the architectural building which, in its general simplicity, instead proposes a volumetric layout that is certainly unusual.
