nicolosa

Updated: May 7, 2025

It was long believed that Mantegna, in the end, forfeited the favour of his master by marrying Nicolosa Bellini, the sister of Gentile and Gian Bellini, whose father was the great rival of Squarcione; and farther, that Mantegna's style of painting had been considered Bellini.

Sarah Tytler - The Old Masters and Their Pictures: For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art