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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Madonna and Child with Six Saints

Andrea Mantegna

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Royal Museums Turin

Royal Museums Turin

Piazzetta Reale, 1, Turin

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Mary, pensive, holds baby Jesus in her lap, robust and erect like a little Hercules. Below, next to them, John the Baptist, just a little older than Jesus, scrutinizes his cousin spellbound, letting his milk teeth leak out. Around, like an architecture of bodies, are Saint Catherine of Alexandria and four other unidentified saints. The story of this panel seems to begin in June 1480: Bona di Savoia, widow of the Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza since 1476, turns to Federico Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, in the hope that Mantegna, whose fame was at that time without equals, can translate into works of art certain drawings that you undertake to send him. Gonzaga diplomatically denies, but declares himself ready to let her have another table, most likely this one. The Duchess would then take her with her, once she returned to the Savoy land, to Fossano. Evidence of the presence of this painting in Piedmont already in the first decade of the 16th century is given by an altarpiece by an unknown Franco-Piedmontese artist, now preserved in Vienna, which copies the composition and enlarges it.
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Title: Madonna and Child with Six Saints

Author: Andrea Mantegna

Date: 1485

Technique: Fat tempera on wood

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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