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Ludovico Gonzaga, who ruled his native city for 34 years, was born on this day in 1412 in Mantua. He grew up to fight as a condottiero - a military leader for hire - and in 1433 he married Barbara of Brandenburg, the niece of the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund. After Ludovico entered the service of the Visconti family in Milan, he and his wife ...
Scala/Art Resource, NY. Mantua was a small, damp, malaria-plagued town, but it occupied a strategic position along the route linking Italy and Germany. From 1327 it was under the control of the landowning Gonzaga family. Ludovico Gonzaga, who became marquis in 1444, served as condottiere for many more powerful cities, including Milan, Florence ...
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Gonzaga, House ofThe Gonzaga family ruled the Italian city-state of Mantua throughout the Renaissance. Its first leader, Luigi I, seized power in the city in 1328. The Gonzaga were signori (lords) of Mantua until 1433, when the Holy Roman Emperor* gave them the title of marquis. By the 1470s, Gonzaga rulers had become powerful princes*, who ...
May 6, 2020 · Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506), Court Scene (1465-74), fresco, height 805 cm, Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy. Wikimedia Commons. On one of the walls, Mantegna has painted his patron and his court. Obvious at the left is Ludovico III Gonzaga, talking to one of his staff. Barbara sits further towards the centre, with the ...
A household dwarf (bottom right) pictured with the Gonzaga family, detail of “Ludovico Gonzaga, His Family and Court,” fresco by Andrea Mantegna, 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy. A household dwarf (bottom right) pictured with the Gonzaga family, detail of “Ludovico Gonzaga, His Family and Court,” fresco by ...
Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, known as the Turk (Italian: il Turco), also spelled Lodovico (also Ludovico II; 5 June 1412 - 12 June 1478) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478. Biography. Ludovico was the son of Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga and Paola Malatesta daughter of Malatesta IV Malatesta of Pesaro.
Ludovico Gonzaga (also spelled Lodovico) was the name of several prominent members of the House of Gonzaga : Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268–1360), better known as Luigi, the first Capitano del Popolo ('Captain of the People') of Mantua and Imperial Vicar. Ludovico II Gonzaga (1334–1382), Italian politician who was capitano del popolo of Mantua ...
