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Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Andrea Mantegna

Venetian painter

Born 1431 · died 13 September 1506, aged 74 or 75
Also known as Mantegna, Andrea Mantegno, Andrea Mantuani

Who was alive at the same time as Andrea Mantegna?

  1. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  2. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  3. Andrea Mantegna, 1431 – 1506
  4. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  5. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  6. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  7. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  8. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  9. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  10. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  11. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  12. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  13. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  14. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  15. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  16. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  17. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  18. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  19. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  20. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  21. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  22. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  23. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  24. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566

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When Andrea Mantegna was born, Pope Pius II was 25 or 26, Leon Battista Alberti was 26 or 27, Pope Callixtus III was 51 or 52, Jami was 16 or 17 and Louis XI was 7 or 8.

When Andrea Mantegna died, Leonardo da Vinci was 54, Michelangelo was 31, Martin Luther was 22, Niccolò Machiavelli was 37 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 33.

Born during Andrea Mantegna’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: John Calvin was born about 3 years after Andrea Mantegna died, Teresa of Ávila was born about 9 years after Andrea Mantegna died, Mary I was born about 10 years after Andrea Mantegna died and Catherine de' Medici was born about 13 years after Andrea Mantegna died.

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The 146 best-known contemporaries

146 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Andrea Mantegna. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1469.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  18. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  19. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  20. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  21. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  22. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  23. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  24. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  25. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  26. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  27. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  28. Babur 1483 – 1530
  29. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  30. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  31. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  32. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  33. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  34. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  35. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  36. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  37. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  38. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  39. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  40. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  41. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  42. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  43. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  44. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  45. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  46. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  47. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  48. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  49. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  50. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  51. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  52. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  53. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  54. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  55. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  56. Jami 1414 – 1492
  57. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  58. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  59. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  60. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  61. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  62. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  63. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  64. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  65. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  66. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  67. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  68. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  69. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  70. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  71. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  72. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  73. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  74. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  75. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  76. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  77. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  78. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  79. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  80. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  81. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  82. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  83. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  84. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  85. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  86. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  87. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  88. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  89. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  90. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  91. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  92. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  93. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  94. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  95. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  96. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  97. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  98. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  99. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  100. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  101. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  102. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  103. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  104. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  105. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  106. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  107. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  108. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  109. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  110. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  111. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  112. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  113. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  114. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  115. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  116. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  117. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  118. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  119. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  120. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  121. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  122. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  123. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  124. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  125. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  126. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  127. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  128. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  129. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  130. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  131. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  132. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  133. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  134. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  135. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  136. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  137. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  138. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  139. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  140. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  141. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  142. James IV 1473 – 1513
  143. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  144. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  145. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  146. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457