List of artworks in the Gonzaga collection

Lorenzo Costa

• 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, c. 1500, oil on panel, 45.5×35.1 cm, Royal Collection
• Madonna and Child,^[3] c. 1500, painting on panel, 71×55 cm, London, private collection

Lucas Cranach

(after)

• Lucretia, oil on panel, 42×27.7 cm, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale

D

Domenichino (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, Munich, Alte Pinakothek
• 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

F

Domenico Fetti

• Christ in the Garden, oil on canvas, 90.5×55.5 Prague, 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, 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, Blois, Musée du Chateau
• The Queen of Sheba Visiting King Solomon, Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland

G

Lorenzo Garbieri

• Circe, oil on panel, 66×52 cm – Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

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

• Erminia among the shepherds, oil on canvas, 149×178 cm, Birmingham (UK), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

L

Lorenzo Lotto

• Triple portrait of a goldsmith
  , c. 1530, 52.1×79.1 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

M

Andrea Mantegna

• Death of the Virgin, c. 1462, tempera and gold on canvas, 54×42 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado
• Pinacoteca Nazionale
• Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte
• Uffizi Triptych
  , c. 1464, tempera on panel, 161.5×86 cm, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
• The Dead Christ, c. 1475–1478, tempera on canvas, 68×81 cm, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
• Hampton Court
  )
• Christ as the Suffering Redeemer, 1488–1500, tempera on panel, 78×48 cm, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst
• Sibyl and Prophet, 1495–1500, tempera on canvas, 58.4×51.1 cm, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum
• Sophonisba
  , 1495–1500, egg tempera on panel, 72.1×19.8 cm, London, National Gallery
• Dido, 1495–1500, glue tempera and gold on linen canvas, 65.3×31.4 cm, Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Judith
  , 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

• Sleeping Cupid, sculpture

Domenico Morone

• Battle at the Bonacolsi, c. 1462, oil on canvas, Mantua, Museo del Palazzo Ducale

P

Pietro Perugino

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

Frans Pourbus the Younger

• Full length portrait of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, 1604–1605, oil on canvas, 202×112 cm, Mantua, private collection
• Portrait of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, 1600, oil on canvas, 108×88 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie
• Portrait of Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Mantua, 1605, oil on canvas, 193×115 cm, Florence,
  Galleria Palatina
• Galleria Palatina
• Portrait of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, c. 1610, 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, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

R

Margherita Paleologa, Royal Collection, 1531^[4]

Guido Reni

• 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

Guido Reni (after)

• The Toilet of Venus, London, National Gallery

Giulio Romano

• 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, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
• La Perla (using drawings by Raphael), c. 1518–1520, oil on canvas, 144×115 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado
• Portrait of Margherita Paleologa, c. 1531, oil on canvas, 115.5×90.5 cm, Royal Collection

Workshop of Giulio Romano

• Fortune, 1520–1546, oil on canvas, 96.2×49.8 cm, Royal Collection^[5]
• Jupiter and Juno taking possession of the throne of Paradise, 1530, oil on canvas, 111×135.5 cm, Royal Collection^[6]
• The Theatre of the Caesars: Nero plays while Rome burns, 1536–1539, oil on canvas, 121.5 x 106.7 cm, Royal Collection^[7]

Pieter Paul Rubens

• Museo del Palazzo Ducale
• 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, Fontainebleau, Musée National du Chateau (stored at the Louvre)
• Portrait of Eleonora I aged two, 76×485 cm, Innsbruck, Ambras Castle
• Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga aged three, c. 1620, 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, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaldegalerie
• Portrait of Maria de' Medici, oil on canvas, 80×60 cm, London, private collection (Mr. Wakhevitch)
• Portrait of Vincenzo II,^[8] oil on canvas, 67×51.5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie

T

Francesco II Gonzaga at the Battle of Taro, Tintoretto

(Jacopo Robusti), 1579

Domenico Tintoretto

• Tancred baptising Clorinda, c. 1585, oil on canvas, 168×115 cm, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts
• Mary Magdalene, Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina

Jacopo Tintoretto

• Prince Philip II's Entry into Mantua, oil on canvas, 211.7×330 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek
• 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, Madrid, Museo del Prado
• Esther Before Ahasuerus, c. 1546–47,^[9] oil on canvas, 59×203 cm, Royal Collection
• The Muses of Music, Royal Collection

Titian

• Portrait of Suliman the Magnificent, 99×85 cm, Innsbruck, Ambras Castle
• Woman with a Mirror, c. 1515, oil on canvas, 99×76 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
• Tarquin and Lucretia
  , c. 1515, 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,^[10] c. 1529, oil on canvas, 125×99 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado
• Palazzo Te
• Man with a Glove, c. 1523, oil on canvas, 100×89 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
• Portrait of a man, c. 1523, oil on canvas, 118×96 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
• The Madonna of the Rabbit
  , c. 1530, oil on canvas, 71×85 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
• The Supper at Emmaus,^[12] c. 1540, oil on canvas, 169×244 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
• Saint Jerome in Penitence,^[13] 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
• Alcazar near Madrid

V

Various artists (designs by)

• Gonzaga Tapestries*

Veronese

• 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

Notes

1. ^ "Vincenzo II, settimo duca di Mantova". Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
2. ^ Favaretto 2002, p. 131.
3. ^ "Catalogo : Costa Lorenzo, Madonna con Bambino". fe.fondazionezeri.unibo.it. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
4. ^ "Portrait of Margherita Palaeologa". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
5. ^ "Fortuna". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
6. ^ "Jupiter and Juno". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
7. ^ "Nero playing while Rome burns". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
8. The Gonzaga Family Adoring the Holy Trinity in the Gesuiti
   church.
9. ^ "Esther before Ahasuerus". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
10. ^ Lapenta & Morselli 2006, p. 243.
11. ^ Lapenta & Morselli 2006, p. 197.
12. ^ Lapenta & Morselli 2006, p. 336.
13. ^ Lapenta & Morselli 2006, p. 332.

Bibliography

• Raffaella Morselli (ed), La Celeste Galleria, Milan, Skira, 2002.
• Lapenta, Stefania; Morselli, Raffaella (2006). La quadreria nell'elenco dei beni del 1626–1627. Cinisello Balsamo, Milan: Silvana.
  ISBN 88-8215-427-0
  .
• Favaretto, Irene (2002). Arte antica e cultura antiquaria nelle collezioni venete al tempo della Serenissima (Riv. e corr. ed.). Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider.
  ISBN 8882652238
  .
• Adelaide Murgia, I Gonzaga, Milan, Mondadori, 1972.

External links

• "Società per il Palazzo Ducale di Mantova – La Visita Impossibile".
• "Passepartout – Philippe Daverio – La saga dei gonzaga".