Madonna della Vittoria
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Louvre Museum , Paris |
The Madonna della Vittoria is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna; the painting was executed in 1496.
History
On 6 July 1495 the French army of
During Francesco's absence from Mantua, Daniele da Norsa, a Jewish banker, had purchased a house in the city's San Simone quarter and replaced the image of the
When Francesco returned, he forced Daniele to fund a chapel and a devotional painting. The painting was to be executed by the Mantuan court painter, Mantegna, and was inaugurated in 1496 on the anniversary of the duke's victory at Fornovo. The work was placed in the church of
The painting was one of the artworks looted by the French during the Napoleonic invasion of Italy, and by 1798 was being exhibited in the Louvre. The painting was never returned; the given excuse was that its large size made the transport difficult. The presence of a sulphur-crested cockatoo in the painting is considered as evidence of Arab trade in the Australasian region which dates all the way to when one such bird was gifted from Sultan al-Kamil to Frederick II in the 1240s.[4]
Description
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The altarpiece shows Francesco Gonzaga paying homage to Mary, who sits on a high throne decorated with marbles
The child Jesus, who holds two red flowers (symbols of the
At the sides are two couples of standing saints: in the foreground are two military saints, the archangel
The scene is set in an
Notes
- ^ If officially Italians celebrated the Battle of Fornovo as a victory – to the surprise of the French – privately, many were not so sure. Guicciardini’s verdict was that ‘general consent awarded the palm to the French’[2]
Sources
- ISBN 978-88-8117-099-9.
- Kuiper, Kathleen, ed. (2009). The 100 Most Influential Painters & Sculptors of the Renaissance. Britannica Educational Publishing.
- Mallett, Michael; Shaw, Christine (2012). The Italian Wars 1494–1559. Modern Wars in Perspective. Harlow: Pearson. ISBN 978-0-582-05758-6.
- Santosuosso, Antonio (1994). "Anatomy of Defeat in Renaissance Italy: The Battle of Fornovo in 1495". The International History Review. 16, No. 2 (May) (2). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 221-250. .
References
- ^ Santosuosso 1994, p. 232.
- ^ a b Mallett & Shaw 2012, p. 31.
- ^ Kuiper 2009, p. 114.
- S2CID 149772247.
- ^ Yarmo, Leslie. "Associate Professor". Academia.edu. Casa Editrice La Giuntina. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Lajos Kalmár: "Der intellektuelle Hintergrund der Vogeldarstellungen der Victorinus-Corvina. Topos- und Status-Untersuchung der Illumination", Acta Historiae Artium, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1973, p. 34. (in German)
External links
- Media related to Madonna della Vittoria at Wikimedia Commons
- La Vierge de la Victoire, Louvre (in French)