Cristoforo Mantegazza (c. 1430 – 1482) was an
Italian
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sculptor who was active from 1464.
He was born in
Pavia
Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...
. Among his other works, he collaborated with his brother Antonio on the façade of the
Certosa of Pavia (relief with the ''Expulsion from the Garden of Eden''), one of the masterworks of northern Italy's
Renaissance
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. For a certain period he also directed the construction of that building.
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1430s births
1482 deaths
Artists from Pavia
15th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors