Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga

Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga

Artist	Andrea Mantegna
Year	c. 1461
Type	Tempera on panel
Dimensions	25 cm × 18 cm (9.8 in × 7.1 in)
Location	National Museum of Capodimonte

Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. It is housed in the National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.

Francesco Gonzaga was the second son of Ludovico Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, who had been appointed as cardinal by Pope Pius II aged seventeen, just after the Council of Mantua.

The painting is one of the first portraits executed by Mantegna at the Mantuan court, where he had moved in 1460.

Sources

Pauli, Tatjana (2001). Mantegna. Milan: Leonardo Arte.

External links

Page at museum's official website (Italian) (English)

Works by Andrea Mantegna

Ovetari Chapel (1448–1457)
The Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1450–1451)
St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1451)
San Luca Altarpiece (1453)
St. James Led to His Execution (c. 1455)
Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455)
Crucifixion (1459)
Agony in the Garden (c. 1459)
Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (c. 1459–1460)
St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels (1460)
Death of the Virgin (c. 1461)
Portrait of a Man (c. 1460)
Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461)
Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1470)
St. George (c. 1460)
San Zeno Altarpiece (1460)
St. Sebastian (of Vienna) (c. 1459)
Adoration of the Magi (1462)
The Ascension (1462)
The Circumcision (1464)
Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459–1466)
St. Sebastian (of the Louvre) (c. 1480)
The Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485)
Triumphs of Caesar (c. 1486)
Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (c. 1488–1500)
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490)
Madonna of the Quarry (1490)
St. Sebastian (of Venice) (1490)
Madonna della Vittoria (1496)
Judith and Holofernes (1495)
Trivulzio Madonna (1497)
Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497)
Holy Family (c. 1500)
Triumph of the Virtues (c. 1502)

Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga

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