Trivulzio Madonna

Infobox Painting|

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title=Trivulzio Madonna
artist=Andrea Mantegna
year=1497
type=Tempera on canvas
height=287
width=214
museum=Civico Museo d'Arte Antica
city=MilanThe "Trivulzio Madonna" is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, executed in 1497. It is housed in the Museum of Ancient Art of the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

The work portrays the Madonna enthroned surrounded by several saints. The theme of the cherubim surrounding the Madonna is a reference to Annunciation. On the side the saints are surmounted by two citrus trees, the two figures in the foreground are portrayed in order to be observed from a lower position. In the lower centre are three busts of chanting angels around an organ, an allusion the Olivetan church of Santa Maria in Organo at Verona, for which the panel was executed. The current name comes from the Trivulzio Collection of Milan, to which it belonged from 1791 to 1935.

References

* [http://www.artonline.it/opera.asp?IDOpera=980 Page at artonline.it] it icon