The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity
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The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity (also, The Trinity Adored by the Gonzaga Family or The Gonzaga Trinity) is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, housed in the Ducal Palace in Mantua, Italy. The work was commissioned by Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga for the Jesuit church in Mantua, while Rubens was his court painter.
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Artist | Peter Paul Rubens |
Year | 1604–1605 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 381 cm × 477 cm (150 in × 188 in) |
Location | Ducal Palace, Mantua |
The work represents the central part of a triptych, of which the two side panels were the Transfiguration and the Baptism of Christ. During the 19th-century French occupation of northern Italy in the Napoleonic Wars, the work was split, and some portions were lost.
The canvas portrays Vincenzo I and his wife Eleonora de' Medici near images of the duke's parents, Guglielmo Gonzaga and Eleonore of Austria. Also depicted are several of their children with some halberdiers, one of whom is Rubens's self-portrait.