squarcionesque

Updated: May 22, 2025

Though Mantegna seems to have owed all his training to Padua, it is impossible to regard him as what is called a Squarcionesque one among the artistic hacks formed and employed by the Paduan impresario of third-rate painting. No other eagle like to him was reared in that nest.

John Addington Symonds - Renaissance in Italy Volume 3: The Fine Arts