The ''Trivulzio Madonna'' is a painting by the

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painter

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 orde ...

, executed in 1497. It is housed in the Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of the Castello Sforzesco,

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. 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

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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

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, 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

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The Madonna by Filippo Lippi is the Trivulzio Madonna as stipulated to in the information signs attached to the paintings at the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco The pictures of both: {{authority control Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Andrea Mantegna 1497 paintings Angels in art Paintings in the Sforza Castle category:Paintings of Benedict of Nursia Paintings of Pope Gregory I