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The Gonzaga Collection or Celeste Gallery (''la Celeste Galeria'') was the large collection of artworks commissioned and acquired by the

House of Gonzaga The House of Gonzaga (, ) is an Italian princely family that ruled Mantua in Lombardy, northern Italy from 1328 to 1708 (first as a captaincy-general, then Margraviate of Mantua, margraviate, and finally Duchy of Mantua, duchy). They also ruled M ...

Mantua Mantua ( ; ; Lombard language, Lombard and ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region of Lombardy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, eponymous province. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the "Italian Capital of Culture". In 2 ...

, Italy, exhibited for a time in the Palazzo Ducale, the Palazzo Te, the Palazzo San Sebastiano and other buildings in Mantua and elsewhere. The Gonzagas were inspired by the

wunderkammer Cabinets of curiosities ( and ), also known as wonder-rooms ( ), were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Although more rudimentary collections had preceded them, t ...

style of collecting practised by the princes of

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Isabella d'Este Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was the 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 ...

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 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

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, mediated by two members of the Whitehall Group – the Flemish art dealer Daniel Nys and Nicholas Lanier, 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 2,000 originally in the collection. As well as paintings, the collection also included decorative work in gold and precious stones such as the Gonzaga Cameo along with natural history specimens or 'mirabilia'.

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Lely Venus The Lely Venus is a marble statue of the crouching Venus type. It is a copy of a Hellenistic original by Doidalses of Bithynia and dates from the Antonine period. History The statue is first recorded in the House of Gonzaga, Gonzaga collectio ...

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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. Biography Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in paintin ...

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

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

*''Bernardino Campi painting a portrait of Sofonisba Angiussola'', , oil on canvas, 111×109.5 cm,

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Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (; 1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. Although a prolific painter, Baglione is best remembered for his encyclopedic collection of biographies of the o ...

*''Allegory of Justice and Peace'', oil on canvas, 255.3×227 cm,

*''Apollo'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm,

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, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Calliope'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Clio'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Erato'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Euterpe'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Polymnia'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Terpsichore'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Thalia'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Urania'', oil on canvas, 195×150 cm, 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. Having trained in the workshop of his father, Fran ...

* ''Christ in the house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus'', oil on canvas 98×126.5 cm,

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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 ...

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

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National Gallery of Ireland The National Gallery of Ireland () 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 Clare Street, Dublin, Clare Street. It ...

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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 Agostino Carracci, Agostino and cousin Ludovico Carracci, Ludovico (with whom the Ca ...

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

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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 from Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering li ...

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

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

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*'' The School of Love'', (1527–1528) oil on canvas, 155.6×91.4 cm,

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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 more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current di ...

*'' Venus and Cupid with a Satyr'', (1523–1525) oil on canvas, 190×124 cm,

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*'' Allegory of Vice '', 1532–1534, oil on canvas, 149×88 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *'' Allegory of Virtue '', 1532–1534, oil on canvas, 149×88 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *'' Holy Family with St Jerome'', oil on panel, 68.8×56×1.8 cm, Royal Collection *'' Danae'', (1531?), oil on panel, 161×193 cm,

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Galleria Borghese The or Borghese Gallery 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 touri ...

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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 Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while a ...

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, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin *'' Rape of Ganymede'', (1531?), oil on panel, 163.5×70.5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie *''

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

*'' 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'', , oil on panel, 45.5×35.1 cm,

*''Madonna and Child'', , painting on panel, 71×55 cm, London, private collection ; Lucas Cranach (after) *''Lucretia'', oil on panel, 42×27.7 cm, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale

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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 shoe ...

(born Domenico Zampieri) *''Rinaldo and Armida'', oil on canvas, 121×167 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *''Sant'Agnese'', oil on canvas, 212.7×152.4 cm, Royal Collection ; Ludovico Dondi *''Julius Caesar in his triumphal chariot'', oil on copper, 19.5×18.5 cm,

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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) Pin ...

*''Men carrying booty and trophies of royal armour'', oil on copper, 18.5×10 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek *''Men carrying booty, trumpeters and sacrificial bulls'', oil on copper, 19.5×16.5 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek *''Prisoners and standard bearers'', oil on copper, 19.5×19 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek *''Trophies, war machines, inscriptions and representations of defeated cities'', oil on copper, 20×18 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek

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Domenico Fetti Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) ( – 16 April 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice. Biography Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed ini ...

*''Christ in the Garden'', oil on canvas, 90.5×55.5

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, 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,

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, 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 ; Lavinia Fontana *''Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalus'', 1594–1595, oil on panel, 57×46 cm,

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

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; Garofalo *''The Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist and St Elisabeth'', oil on panel, 47.5×32 cm, London, Courtauld Institute of Art ;

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

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

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*'' Triple portrait of a goldsmith'', , 52.1×79.1 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, ; ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Ancient Rome, Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with Perspective (graphical), pe ...

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Death of the Virgin The Death of the Virgin Mary is a common subject in Western Christian art, and is 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 t ...

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*'' Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin'', 1462, tempera on panel, 27.5×17.5 cm,

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, Pinacoteca Nazionale *'' Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga'', 1460–1462, tempera on panel, 25.5×18 cm,

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, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte *'' Uffizi Triptych'', , tempera on panel, 161.5×86 cm, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi *'' The Dead Christ'', , tempera on canvas, 68×81 cm,

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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 ...

*'' Triumphs of Caesar'', 1486–1492, nine canvases, each 3m by 3m, Royal Collection (

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

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, Statens Museum for Kunst *'' Sibyl and Prophet'', 1495–1500, tempera on canvas, 58.4×51.1 cm,

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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 ...

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'', 1495–1500, glue tempera and gold on linen canvas, 65.3×31.4 cm,

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) 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 Mile stretch of Sherbrooke Street west. The MMFA ...

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'', 1495–1500, glue tempera and gold on linen canvas, 65×31 cm, Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts *'' Tuccia'', 1495–1500, egg tempera on panel, 72.5×23 cm, London, National Gallery *'' Mars and Venus'', 1497, tempera on canvas, 160×192 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *'' Triumph of Virtue'' or ''Minerva Casting out the Vices from the Garden of Virtue'', 1499–1502, tempera on canvas, 160×192 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *'' Madonna of Victory'', 1496, tempera on canvas, 280×166 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre ;

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspir ...

*'' Sleeping Cupid'', sculpture ;

Domenico Morone Domenico Morone ( 1442 – 1518) was an Italian painter from Verona, painting in an early Renaissance style. Much of his work has not survived, notably his fresco cycles. He was considered by Vasari to be second only to Liberale da Verona among ...

*'' Battle at the Bonacolsi'', , oil on canvas, Mantua, Museo del Palazzo Ducale

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Pietro Perugino Pietro Perugino ( ; ; born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famou ...

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

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

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, Galleria Palatina *''Portrait of Vincenzo I Gonzaga'', , 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 ;

Giulio Romano Giulio Pippi ( – 1 November 1546), known as Giulio Romano and Jules Romain ( , ; ), was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the ...

*''Madonna and Child with St Anne'', oil on panel, 58×48 cm, frame under construction, Prague, Castle Gallery *''Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto'', oil on panel, 110.5×133.4 cm, Mantua, private collection *''Emperor on horseback'', oil on panel, 83×54 cm, London, Trafalgar Galleries *''The Birth of Bacchus'', oil on panel, 126.5×80 cm,

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Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

), , oil on canvas, 144×115 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado *'' Portrait of Margherita Paleologa'', , oil on canvas, 115.5×90.5 cm,

;;Workshop of Giulio Romano *''Fortune'', 1520–1546, 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'', 1536–1539, oil on canvas, 121.5 x 106.7 cm, Royal Collection Eleonora Gonzaga 001

; Pieter Paul Rubens * '' The Gonzaga Family Adoring the Holy Trinity'', 1604–1605, oil on canvas, 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'', , oil on canvas, 76×49.5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches, Gemaeldegalerie * ''Portrait of Ferdinando Gonzaga'', oil on canvas, 112×87×12 cm, Bowral, Australia, private collection * '' Portrait of Isabella d'Este'', 101.8×81 cm,

, Gemaldegalerie * ''Portrait of Maria de' Medici'', oil on canvas, 80×60 cm, London, private collection (Mr. Wakhevitch) * ''Portrait of Vincenzo II'', oil on canvas, 67×51.5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie

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; Domenico Tintoretto * ''Tancred baptising Clorinda'', , oil on canvas, 168×115 cm,

, Museum of Fine Arts * ''Mary Magdalene, ''Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina ;

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* ''Prince Philip II's Entry into Mantua'', oil on canvas, 211.7×330 cm,

* ''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'', , oil on canvas, 59×203 cm,

* ''The Muses of Music'',

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Tizian - Portrait of Federico II Gonzaga - circa 1525

* '' Portrait of Suliman the Magnificent'', 99×85 cm, Innsbruck, Ambras Castle * '' Woman with a Mirror'', , oil on canvas, 99×76 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * '' Tarquin and Lucretia'', , 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'', , oil on canvas, 125×99 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado * '' Portrait of Giulio Romano'', oil on canvas, 102×87 cm, Mantova, Palazzo Te * '' Man with a Glove'', , oil on canvas, 100×89 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * '' Portrait of a man'', , oil on canvas, 118×96 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre * '' The Madonna of the Rabbit'', , oil on canvas, 71×85 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre *'' The Supper at Emmaus'', , 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'', set of eleven works lost in a fire at the Alcazar near

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;Various artists (designs by) *'' Gonzaga Tapestries*'' ;

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* ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'', oil on canvas, 111×110 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum ; Antonio Maria Viani * ''Annunciation to the Virgin Mary'', oil on canvas, 54.5×42.5 cm, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale

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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''