Trivulzio Madonna

Trivulzio Madonna

Artist	Andrea Mantegna
Year	1497
Type	Tempera on canvas
Dimensions	287 cm × 214 cm (113 in × 84 in)
Location	Sforza Castle Pinacoteca, Milan

The Trivulzio Madonna is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, executed in 1497. It is housed in the Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

The work portrays the Madonna enthroned surrounded by several saints. The theme of the cherubim surrounding the Madonna is a reference to Annunciation. On the side the saints are surmounted by two citrus trees, the two figures in the foreground are portrayed in order to be observed from a lower position. In the lower centre are three busts of chanting angels around an organ, an allusion the Olivetan church of Santa Maria in Organo at Verona, for which the panel was executed. The current name comes from the Trivulzio Collection of Milan, to which it belonged from 1791 to 1935.

References

Page at artonline.it (Italian)

Works by Andrea Mantegna

Ovetari Chapel (1448–1457)
The Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1450–1451)
St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1451)
San Luca Altarpiece (1453)
St. James Led to His Execution (c. 1455)
Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455)
Crucifixion (1459)
Agony in the Garden (c. 1459)
Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (c. 1459–1460)
St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels (1460)
Death of the Virgin (c. 1461)
Portrait of a Man (c. 1460)
Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461)
Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1470)
St. George (c. 1460)
San Zeno Altarpiece (1460)
St. Sebastian (of Vienna) (c. 1459)
Adoration of the Magi (1462)
The Ascension (1462)
The Circumcision (1464)
Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459–1466)
St. Sebastian (of the Louvre) (c. 1480)
The Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485)
Triumphs of Caesar (c. 1486)
Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (c. 1488–1500)
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490)
Madonna of the Quarry (1490)
St. Sebastian (of Venice) (1490)
Madonna della Vittoria (1496)
Judith and Holofernes (1495)
Trivulzio Madonna (1497)
Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497)
Holy Family (c. 1500)
Triumph of the Virtues (c. 1502)

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