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Mantua
Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera, and the city is known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and medieval and Renaissance cityscape. It is the nearest town to the birthplace of the Roman writer Virgil. It is also the town to which Romeo was banished in William Shakespeare's Play Romeo and Juliet. Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century. These receive the waters of the river Mincio, a tributary of the Po which descends from Lake Garda. The three lakes are called Lago Superiore, Lago di Mezzo, and Lago Inferiore ("Upper", "Middle", and "Lower Lake"). A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once completed a defensive water ring of the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century. The area and its environs are not only important in naturalistic terms, but also anthropologically and historically; research has highlighted a number of human settlements scattered between Barche di Solferino and Bande di Cavriana Castellaro and Isolone del Mincio. These date, without interruption, from Neolithic times (5th-4th millennium BC) to the Bronze Age (2nd-1st millennium BC), the Gallic phases (2nd-1st C. BC) and end with Roman residential settlements, which can be dated to the 3rd century AD.
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REDDITION DE MANTOUE.2 FEVRIER 1797
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- Portrayed subject:
- City
- Horse
- Mantua
- Staff (military)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Ippolito Andreasi
LE REPOS PENDANT LA FUITE EN EGYPTE, ou LA SAINTE FAMILLE...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Deciduous
- Elizabeth (biblical figure)
- Flight into Egypt
- Grape
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- Date:
- 16th century
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Lorenzo Costa
SAINTE VERONIQUE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Holy Face of Jesus
- Saint Veronica
- Smile
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- Date:
- 16th century
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Capitulation de la Ville de Mantoue
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- Field(s):
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Architecture
- Bayonet
- Cannon
- Door
- Flag
- Fortification
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Vues de plusieurs villes en Europe : Mantoue
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bell tower
- Bridge
- City
- Lake
- Mantua
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Sarreguemines
Napoléon Ier (6)(Série décorative)
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- Field(s):
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Mantua
- Military
- Napoleon
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Un tombeau à Mantoue
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Saint Andrew
- Tomb
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Adrien Pâris
Plan du palais du Té à Mantoue, de Jules Romain
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- Field(s):
- Architecture
- Drawing
- Map
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- Date:
- 18th century
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