page_title: List of artworks in the Gonzaga collection
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context_page_description: The Gonzaga Collection or Celeste Gallery was the large collection of artworks commissioned and acquired by the House of Gonzaga in Mantua, Italy, exhibited for a time in the Palazzo Ducale, the Palazzo Te, the Palazzo San Sebastiano and other buildings in Mantua and elsewhere.
  The Gonzagas were inspired by the wunderkammer style of collecting practised by the princes of Bavaria, with Isabella d'Este in particular creating a noted private 'studiolo'. They set an example for other European courts, particularly in their patronage of contemporary artists, whilst their collecting increased the international profile of Mantua, a relatively small state. It reached its peak under Vincenzo I Gonzaga and his son Ferdinando, before the family's decline led to major losses from the collection, such as the long negotiations from 1625 onwards with Charles I of Great Britain, mediated by two members of the Whitehall Group - the Flemish art dealer Daniel Nys and Nicholas Lanier, Master of the King's Music. These culminated in 1627 with most of the Gonzaga collections being sent to London. This ensured their preservation, unlike the artworks still in Mantua when the city was sacked in 1630.
context_section_description: Annibale Carracci
  The Butcher's Shop, 1582-1583, oil on canvas, 185×266 cm, Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery
  Ludovico Carracci
  Ecstacy of St Francis, oil on panel, 67×51, Parma, private collection
  Correggio
  The School of Love, (1527-1528) oil on canvas, 155,6×91,4 cm, London, National Gallery
  Venus and Cupid with a Satyr , (1523-1525) oil on canvas,190×124 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  Allegory of Vice , 1532-1534, oil on canvas, 149×88 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  Allegory of Virtue , 1532-1534, oil on canvas, 149×88 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  Holy Family with St Jerome, oil on panel, 68,8×56×1,8, Royal Collection
  Danae, (1531?), oil on panel, 161×193 cm, Rome, Galleria Borghese
  Leda and the Swan, (1531?), olio su tavola, 152×191 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  Rape of Ganymede, (1531?), oil on panel,  163,5×70,5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie
  Jupiter and Io, (1531?), oil on panel,  163,5×74 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaeldegalerie
  Lorenzo Costa
  Reign of Comus, 1504, oil on panel,160×192 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  Isabella d'Este in the kingdom of Harmonia or Allegory of the coronation of Isabella d'Este, 1505, oil on panel, 164,5×197,5 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  Portrait of a woman with a dog, 1500 circa, oil on panel, 45,5×35,1 cm, Royal Collection
  Madonna and Child, 1500 circa, painting on panel, 71×55 cm, London, private collection
  Lucas Cranach (after)
  Lucretia, oil on panel, 42×27,7, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale
caption: The Butcher's Shop', Annibale Carracci
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