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The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity

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Year
  
1604–1605

Artist
  
Peter Paul Rubens

Period
  
Baroque

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Created
  
1604–1605

Genre
  
Christian art

The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity

Dimensions
  
381 cm × 477 cm (150 in × 188 in)

Locations
  
Private collection, Palazzo Ducale, Mantova

Similar
  
Peter Paul Rubens artwork, Baroque artwork, Christian art

The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity is a painting by the Dutch artist Peter Paul Rubens, housed in the Ducal Palace of Mantua, northern Italy.

The work was commissioned by Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga for the Jesuit church in Mantua. The work represents the central part of a triptych, in which the two side panels depicted the Transfiguration and the Baptism of Christ. During the French occupation of northern Italy, in the early 19th century, the work was split, and some parts went lost.

The canvas portrays Vincenzo I and his wife, Eleonora de' Medici, near the images of the duke's parents, Guglielmo Gonzaga and Eleonore of Austria. Also depicted are several of their children with some halberdiers, one of which is Rubens' self-portrait.

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The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity Wikipedia