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Mantua Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...

, Italy, exhibited for a time in the

Palazzo Ducale Several palaces are named Ducal Palace (Italian: ''Palazzo Ducale'' ) because it was the seat or residence of a duke. Notable palaces with the name include: France * Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, Dijon * Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine, Nancy * ...

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Palazzo Te or is a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy. It is a fine example of the mannerist style of architecture, and the acknowledged masterpiece of Giulio Romano. Although formed in Italian, the usual name in English of Palazzo del Te is not that ...

, the Palazzo San Sebastiano and other buildings in Mantua and elsewhere. The Gonzagas were inspired by the wunderkammer style of collecting practised by the princes of

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

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Isabella d'Este Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whos ...

in particular creating a noted private 'studiolo'. They set an example for other European courts, particularly in their patronage of contemporary artists, whilst their collecting increased the international profile of Mantua, a relatively small state. It reached its peak under

Vincenzo I Gonzaga Vincenzo Ι Gonzaga (21 September 1562 – 9 February 1612) was ruler of the Duchy of Mantua and the Duchy of Montferrat from 1587 to 1612. Biography Vincenzo was the only son of Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Archduchess Eleanor of Aust ...

and his son Ferdinando, before the family's decline led to major losses from the collection, such as the long negotiations from 1625 onwards with

Charles I of Great Britain Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after hi ...

, mediated by two members of the

Whitehall Group The Whitehall group (or less frequently, Whitehall Circle) is a term applied to a small circle of art connoisseurs, collectors, and patrons, closely associated with King Charles I, who introduced a taste for the Italian old masters to England. ...

- the Flemish art dealer

Daniel Nys Daniel Nijs (or Nys) (1572-1647) was a Flemish art dealer. Life Born in Wesel into a family of Protestant refugees from the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium), he moved to Venice in 1596. There he worked for the firm of his cousins, the Gabrys, w ...

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Nicholas Lanier Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (baptised 10 September 1588 – buried 24 February 1666) was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great ...

, Master of the King's Music. These culminated in 1627 with most of the Gonzaga collections being sent to London. This ensured their preservation, unlike the artworks still in Mantua when the city was sacked in 1630. Its works are now split between museums and private collections across the world, as shown by the 2002-2003 exhibition ''Gonzaga. La Celeste Galeria. Il Museo dei Duchi di Mantova'' at the Palazzo Te and Palazzo Ducale, which included around ninety paintings from the total of approximately 2000 originally in the collection. As well as paintings, the collection also included decorative work in gold and precious stones such as the

Gonzaga Cameo The Gonzaga Cameo is a Hellenistic engraved gem; a cameo of the ''capita jugata'' variety cut out from the three layers of an Indian sardonyx, dating from perhaps the 3rd century BC.

along with natural history specimens or 'mirabilia'.

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Gonzaga Cameo The Gonzaga Cameo is a Hellenistic engraved gem; a cameo of the ''capita jugata'' variety cut out from the three layers of an Indian sardonyx, dating from perhaps the 3rd century BC.

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Cristofano Allori Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 – 1 April 1621) was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school, painting mostly portraits and religious subjects. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his ...

* ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'', 1613, oil on canvas, 120x100,

Royal Collection The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the ...

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Sofonisba Anguissola Sofonisba Anguissola ( – 16 November 1625), also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family. She received a ...

*''Bernardino Campi painting a portrait of Sofonisba Angiussola'', 1556 circa, oil on canvas, 111×109,5,

Siena Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...

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Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious and damaging involvement with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio and ...

*''Allegory of Justice and Peace'', oil on canvas, 255,3×227,

*''Apollo'', oil on canvas, 195×150,

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, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Calliope'', oil on canvas, 195×150, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Clio'', oil on canvas, 195×150, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Erato'', oil on canvas, 195×150, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Euterpe'', oil on canvas, 195×15, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Polymnia'', oil on canvas, 195×150, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Terpsichore'', oil on canvas, 195×150, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Thalia'', oil on canvas, 195×150, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Urania'', oil on canvas, 195×150, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts ;

Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco t ...

* ''Christ in the house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus'', oil on canvas 98×126,5,

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery Blaffer Art Museum is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the Arts District of the University of Houston campus. Housed in the university’s Fine Arts Building, it is part of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts. It was fo ...

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Pieter Bruegel the Younger Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger (, ; ; between 23 May and 10 October 1564 – between March and May 1638) was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work as well as h ...

*''Wedding Feast'', oil on panel, 89×112 cm,

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

National Gallery of Ireland The National Gallery of Ireland ( ga, Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on ...

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Annibale Carracci Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of th ...

*''The Butcher's Shop'', 1582-1583, oil on canvas, 185×266 cm,

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

Christ Church Picture Gallery Christ Church Picture Gallery is an art gallery located inside Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 300 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. The ...

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Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

*''Ecstacy of St Francis'', oil on panel, 67×51,

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmigiano-Reggiano, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 ...

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Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ...

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The School of Love ''Venus with Mercury and Cupid'', ''The School of Love'' or ''The Education of Cupid'' is a c. 1525 painting by the Italian painter Correggio, now in the National Gallery. History A preparatory sketch for it survives in the British Museum. '' V ...

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London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

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Venus and Cupid with a Satyr ''Venus and Cupid with a Satyr'' (c. 1528) is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio. It is now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Background This painting was in the 16th century in the private collection of co ...

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Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

Musée du Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

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Holy Family with St Jerome ''The Holy Family with Saint Jerome'' is a 68 by 56 cm oil on poplar panel painting by Correggio. It dates to around 1515 and is now displayed in the East Closet of Hampton Court Palace as part of the Royal Collection. It has similarities with th ...

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Galleria Borghese The Galleria Borghese () is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist ...

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Leda and the Swan Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the sa ...

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Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

Staatliche Museen The Berlin State Museums (german: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) are a group of institutions in Berlin, Germany, comprising seventeen museums in five clusters, several research institutes, libraries, and supporting facilities. They are overseen ...

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Jupiter and Io ''Jupiter and Io'' is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio around 1530. It now hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. History The series of Jupiter's Loves was conceived after the success of '' ...

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Lorenzo Costa Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 5 March 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Biography He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and was probably influenced by the Bolognese School. However, many artists worked i ...

*'' Reign of Comus'', 1504, oil on panel, 160×192 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *'' Isabella d'Este in the kingdom of Harmonia'' or ''Allegory of the coronation of Isabella d'Este'', 1505, oil on panel, 164,5×197,5 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *''Portrait of a woman with a dog'', 1500 circa, oil on panel, 45,5×35,1 cm,

*''Madonna and Child'', 1500 circa, painting on panel, 71×55 cm, London, private collection ;

Lucas Cranach Cranach is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Augustin Cranach (1554–1595), German painter *Hans Cranach (c. 1513–1537), German painter *Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553), German artist *Lucas Cranach th ...

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Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoem ...

(born Domenico Zampieri) *''Rinaldo and Armida'', oil on canvas, 121×167, Paris, Musée du Louvre *''Sant'Agnese'', oil on canvas, 212,7×152,4, Royal Collection ;

Ludovico Dondi Ludovico Dondi (active 1585–1614) was an Italian painter active in Mantua. He is called ''il Mantovano'' in 1840 by Romanelli. Garollo calls him ''Luigi Dondi''. He is known for the copies he made of Andrea Mantegna's ''Triumphs of Caesar (M ...

*''Julius Caesar in his triumphal chariot'',

oil on copper Oil on copper painting is the process of creating artworks by using oil paints with copper as the Substrate (chemistry), substrate. This is sometimes referred to as “copper as canvas” because canvas is the most well known surface material used ...

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Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

Alte Pinakothek The Alte Pinakothek (, ''Old Pinakothek'') is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pinak ...

*''Men carrying booty and trophies of royal armour'', oil on copper, 18,5×10 Munich, Alte Pinakothek *''Men carrying booty, trumpeters and sacrificial bulls'', oil on copper, 19,5×16,5 Munich, Alte Pinakothek *''Prisoners and standard bearers'', oil on copper, 19,5×19, Munich, Alte Pinakothek *''Trophies, war machines, inscriptions and representations of defeated cities'', oil on copper, 20×18, Munich, Alte Pinakothek

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Domenico Fetti Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) (c. 1589 – 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who had been active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice. Biography Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed i ...

*''Christ in the Garden'', oil on canvas, 90,5×55,5

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

, National Gallery *''Elijah Triumphing over the Prophets of Baal'', oil on panel, 61,2×70,5, Royal Collection *''Sage-seed greenhouse'', oil on panel, 60,8×44,5, Prague, Castle Gallery *''Margherita Gonzaga receiving the model of the Church of S.Orsola'', 1619-1623, oil on canvas, 245×276 cm, Mantua, Museo del Palazzo Ducale *'' Portrait of an astronomer'', oil on canvas, 98×73,5,

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

, Gemaldegalerie *''Posthumous portrait of Federico II Gonzaga, I Duke of Mantua'', oil on canvas, 99×88, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegaleire *'' Vision of St Peter'', oil on panel, 66×51, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum *''The Penitent Magdalene'', 1617-21, oil on canvas, 98×78,5 cm,

Galleria Doria Pamphilj The Doria Pamphilj Gallery is a large art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy, between Via del Corso and Via della Gatta. The principal entrance is on the Via del Corso (until recently, the entrance to the gallery was fr ...

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Lavinia Fontana Lavinia Fontana (August 24, 1552 – August 11, 1614) was a Bologna, Bolognese Mannerism, Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious pai ...

*''Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalus'', 1594-1595, oil on panel, 57×46 cm,

Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the ...

, Musée du Chateau * ''The Queen of Sheba Visiting King Solomon'', Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland

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Lorenzo Garbieri Lorenzo Garbieri (1580 – 5 April 1654) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was one of the painters in the studio of Ludovico Carracci and is sometimes called ''il nipote dei Carracci''. He was said t ...

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Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna The National Art Gallery of Bologna (''Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna'') is a museum in Bologna, Italy. It is located in the former Saint Ignatius Jesuit novitiate of the city's University district, and inside the same building that houses the ...

; Garofalo *''The Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist and St Elisabeth'', oil on panel, 47,5×32, London, Courtauld Institute of Art ;

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...

*''Erminia among the shepherds'', oil on canvas, 149×178,

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

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Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Painting, painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school (art), Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He pain ...

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Triple portrait of a goldsmith The ''Triple Portrait of a Goldsmith'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, created ''c.'' 1530 and now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It has previously been attributed to other artists such ...

'', 1530 circa, 52,1×79,1 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order ...

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Death of the Virgin The Death of the Virgin Mary is a common subject in Western Christian art, the equivalent of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Eastern Orthodox art. This depiction became less common as the doctrine of the Assumption gained support in the Roman ...

'', 1462 circa, tempera and gold on canvas, 54×42 cm,

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

Museo del Prado The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...

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Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin ''Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin'' is a tempera on panel painting measuring 27.5 by 17.5 cm by Andrea Mantegna. It was completed around 1462 and is now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Ferrara. It shows Christ in an almond-shaped cloud ...

'', 1462, tempera on panel, 27,5×17,5 cm,

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

, Pinacoteca Nazionale *'' Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga'', 1460-1462, tempera on panel, 25,5×18 cm,

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy. The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian ...

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Uffizi Triptych The ''Adoration of the Magi'' or ''Uffizi Triptych'' is a group of three tempera-on-panel paintings by Andrea Mantegna, dating to around 1460. Their three subjects are the ''Ascension of Christ'' (86 by 42.5 cm), ''Adoration of the Magi'' t ...

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The Dead Christ ''The Dead Christ'' or ''The Redeemer in Death'' is a statue of Jesus Christ executed in white Carrara marble by the Irish sculptor John Hogan in Rome. Hogan created three versions of the statue in the early 19th century: * the first (1829) is l ...

'', 1475-1478 circa, tempera on canvas, 68×81 cm,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

Pinacoteca di Brera The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of ...

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Triumphs of Caesar The ''Triumphs of Caesar'' are a series of nine large paintings created by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna between 1484 and 1492 for the Gonzaga Ducal Palace, Mantua. They depict a triumphal military parade celebrating the victor ...

'', 1486-1492, nine canvases, each 3m by 3m, Royal Collection (

Hampton Court Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chief ...

) *'' Christ as the Suffering Redeemer'', 1488 - 1500, tempera on panel, 78×48 cm,

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

Statens Museum for Kunst The National Gallery of Denmark ( da, Statens Museum for Kunst, also known as "SMK", literally State Museum for Art) is the Danish national gallery, located in the centre of Copenhagen. The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches and han ...

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Sibyl and Prophet ''Sibyl and Prophet'' is a grisaille distemper (paint), distemper painting by Andrea Mantegna c. 1495. It is now in the Cincinnati Art Museum. History Mantegna produced several grisailles in the last eleven years of his life; this style imitated r ...

'', 1495-1500, tempera on canvas, 58,4×51,1 cm,

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

Cincinnati Art Museum The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of ov ...

*'' Sofonisba'', 1495-1500, egg tempera on panel, 72,1×19,8 cm, London, National Gallery *''

Dido Dido ( ; , ), also known as Elissa ( , ), was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in modern Tunisia), in 814 BC. In most accounts, she was the queen of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre (t ...

'', 1495-1500, glue tempera and gold on linen canvas, 65,3×31,4 cm,

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA; french: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, MBAM) is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest art museum in Canada by gallery space. The museum is located on the historic Golden Square ...

*'' Judith'', 1495-1500, glue tempera and gold on linen canvas, 65×31 cm, Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts *''

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'' or ''Battle of Chastity against Lust'', 1508, oil on canvas, 158×180 cm, Musée du Louvre ;

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*''Full length portrait of Vincenzo I Gonzaga'', 1604-1605, oil on canvas, 202×112 cm, Mantua, private collection *''

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, Gemaeldegalerie *''Portrait of Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Mantua'', 1605, oil on canvas, 193×115 cm, Florence,

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*'' Portrait of Eleonora de' Medici, Duchess of Mantua'', 1603, oil on canvas, 84×67 cm,

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*''Portrait of Vincenzo I Gonzaga'', 1610 circa, oil on canvas, 114×108,5 cm, Mantua, Palazzo d'Arco *''Portrait of Margaret of Savoy'', 1608, oil on canvas, 206,5×116,3 cm,

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*''The Labours of Hercules'', 1617-1621, a series of four canvases commissioned by Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, Paris, Musée du Louvre: **''Hercules on fire'' **''Hercules and Archelaus'' **''Hercules and the Hydra'' **''Nessus raping Deianira'' ;

(after) *''The Toilet of Venus'', London, National Gallery ;

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*''Madonna and Child with St Anne'', oil on panel, 58×48, frame under construction, Prague, Castle Gallery *''Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto'', oil on panel, 110,5×133,4, Mantua, private collection *''Emperor on horseback'', oil on panel, 83×54 London, Trafalgar Galleries *''The Birth of Bacchus'', oil on panel, 126,5×80,

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), 1518-1520 circa, oil on canvas, 144×115 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado *'' Portrait of Margherita Paleologa'', 1531 circa, oil on canvas, 115,5×90,5 cm,

;;Workshop of Giulio Romano *''Fortune'', 1520-46, oil on canvas, 96,2×49,8 cm, Royal Collection *''Jupiter and Juno taking possession of the throne of Paradise'', 1530, oil on canvas, 111×135,5 cm, Royal Collection *''The Theatre of the Caesars: Nero plays while Rome burns'', 1536-9, oil on canvas, 121.5 x 106.7 cm, Royal Collection Eleonora Gonzaga 001

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* '' The Gonzaga Family Adoring the Holy Trinity'', 1604-1605, oil on canvas di cm 381×477 cm, Mantua, Museo del Palazzo Ducale * '' Self-portrait with friends in Mantua'', 1602-1604, oil on canvas, 78×101 cm,

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, Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Fine Arts * ''Council of the Gods'', oil on canvas, 204×379 cm, Prague, Castle Gallery * ''Aeneas prepares to lead the Trojan survivors into exile'', 1602-1603,oil on canvas, 146×227 cm,

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, Musée National du Chateau (stored at the Louvre) * ''Portrait of Eleonora I aged two'', 76×485 cm,

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* ''Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga aged three'', 1620 circa, oil on canvas, 76×49,5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches, Gemaeldegalerie * ''Portrait of Ferdinando Gonzaga'', oil on canvas, 112×87×12 cm, Bowral, Australia, Collezione privata * '' Portrait of Isabella d'Este'', 101,80×81 cm,

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, Gemaldegalerie * ''Portrait of Maria de' Medici'', oil on canvas, 80×60 cm, London, private collection (Mr. Wakhevitch) * ''Portrait of Vincenzo II'',Pendant to '' The Gonzaga Family Adoring the Holy Trinity'' in the Gesuiti church. oil on canvas, 67×51,5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie

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* ''Tancred baptising Clorinda'', 1585 circa, oil on canvas, 168×115 cm,

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* ''Prince Philip II's Entry into Mantua'', oil on canvas, 211,7×330

* ''Federico II Gonzaga at the siege of Parma'', oil on canvas, 213×276 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek * '' Francesco II Gonzaga at the Battle of Fornovo on the Taro'', oil on canvas, 269×421 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek * ''Coronation of Marchese Gianfrancesco Gonzaga'', oil on canvas, 272×432 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek * ''Rape of Helen'', oil on canvas, 186×307 cm,

* '' Esther before Ahasuerus'', 1552-1555 (?), oil on canvas, 59×203 cm,

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Woman with a Mirror ''Woman with a Mirror'' (french: La Femme au miroir) is a painting by Titian, dated to c. 1515 and now in the Musée du Louvre. History It is known to have been in the Gonzaga family's collection in Mantua from which it was bought by Charles ...

'', 1515 circa, oil on canvas, 99×76 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * ''

Tarquin and Lucretia ''Tarquin and Lucretia'' is an oil painting by Titian completed in 1571, when the artist was in his eighties, for Philip II of Spain. It is signed, and considered to have been finished entirely by Titian himself. It is one of a series of grea ...

'', 1515 circa, oil on panel, 84×68 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie * '' Portrait of Isabella d'Este'', 1536, oil on canvas, 102×64 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie * '' Portrait of Federico II Gonzaga'', 1529 circa, oil on canvas, 125×99 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado * ''

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Man with a Glove ''Man with a Glove'' ( French: ''L'Homme au Gant'') is an oil-on-canvas portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, painted . It is part of the collections of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. History The work originates from the Gonzaga family ...

'', circa 1523, oil on canvas, 100×89 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * '' Portrait of a man'', 1523 circa, oil on canvas, 118×96 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * ''

The Madonna of the Rabbit The ''Madonna of the Rabbit'' (French: ''Vierge au lapin'') is an oil painting by Titian, dated to 1530 and now held in the Louvre in Paris. It is signed "Ticianus f." and is named after the white rabbit held in Mary's left hand. The rabbit is a ...

'', 1530 circa, oil on canvas, 71×85 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *'' The Supper at Emmaus'',

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circa, oil on canvas, 169×244 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * '' Saint Jerome in Penitence'', oil on canvas, 80×102 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * ''Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga'', tempera on panel, 25,5×18 cm, Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte * ''

Eleven Caesars The ''Eleven Caesars'' was a series of eleven painted half-length portraits of Roman emperors made by Titian in 1536-40 for Federico II, Duke of Mantua. They were among his best-known works, inspired by the ''Lives of the Caesars'' by Sueton ...

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Gonzaga Tapestries Gonzaga may refer to: Places *Gonzaga, Lombardy, commune in the province of Mantua, Italy *Gonzaga, Cagayan, municipality in the Philippines * Gonzaga, Minas Gerais, town in Brazil *Forte Gonzaga, fort in Messina, Sicily People with the surnam ...

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Veronese Veronese is the Italian word denoting someone or something from Verona, Italy and may refer to: * Veronese Riddle, a popular riddle in the Middle Ages * ''Veronese'' (moth), a moth genus in the family Crambidae * Monte Veronese, an Italian chees ...

* ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'', oil on canvas, 111×110 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum ;

Antonio Maria Viani Antonio Maria Viani (born c. 1540) (also called ''Vianino'') was an Italian painter and carver of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of the Giulio Campi, Campi. He was court painter to Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga, and ador ...

* ''Annunciation to the Virgin Mary'', oil on canvas, 54,5×42,5 cm, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale

Notes

Bibliography

* Raffaella Morselli (ed), ''La Celeste Galleria'', Milan, Skira, 2002. * * * Adelaide Murgia, ''I Gonzaga'', Milan, Mondadori, 1972.

External links

* * {{cite web, url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZdiVVThKsw, title=Passepartout - Philippe Daverio - ''La saga dei gonzaga''