Madonna in Glory with Saints (Trivulzio Madonna)
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About this painting
She floats within a ring of light instead of sitting on a throne — the Assumption, the feast the commissioning church was named for, built into her posture. Below her, three angels sing around a small organ, a pun on that church's own name: Santa Maria in Organo.
Jerome holds a model of that same church; Benedict wears the reformed Olivetan habit the monastery kept. The monks' accounts record payments for gold and ultramarine, and gifts of pheasants and hares. Mantegna signed the canvas on the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 1497.
Sources: Curatorial reading: Madonna suspended in mandorla rather than enthroned as an Assumption reference (titular dedication of commissioning church); dimensions, date, provenance · Archival monastery account books recording payments to Mantegna for frame, gold/ultramarine pigment, and gifts in kind (pheasants, partridges, hares) · Elena Bugini, "In margine alla Pala Trivulzio: meditazioni e modulazioni su alcuni temi d'un capo d'opera," Verona Illustrata 23 (2010), pp. 29-47 · Congregation of Monte Oliveto (Olivetan Benedictines), "St Bernard Tolomei & The Congregation of Monte Oliveto," order's own history page · Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, exhibition record "Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506)" (loan from the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan)
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 12,011 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.