I've been unable to compare that Mantegna, the original of the one from which Degas painted his copy. What was the Mantegna titled?
I've quietly enjoyed this challenge for some time now, but haven't ever felt able to participate because I really am a bona fide art dunce. I do always google the paintings after-the-fact and read all of the links you and CTyankee and some of the others have normally provided and that has been pretty much my entire education where the art world is concerned. I did skim off of the learning that my daughter managed when she went to college (saved all of her textbooks and read them) and did the same as a kid when my big brother studied Art History, but other than that, as CTyankee has probably figured by now, I know absolutely nothing and I couldn't tell a Mannerist from a Realist just by looking. But I've always been interested.
You must excuse my glee of discovery, for I'm aware that you are no "dunce", at all, and I was pretty pleased with that research I did earlier. 
It was a fun afternoon! My man passed by the computer while I was fixing supper and wanted to know what all those weird pictures were on the google page that I'd left it at, ha! (a stubborn guy who wouldn't enter a museum if it was the last building on earth)
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