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  • "The Gonzagas are the only other guinea gangsters licensed to do business in this end of the state, right?"

    Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001

  • Orlando, however, left the Gonzagas after only three years and it was Giaches who was to be their maestro di capella for the rest of his days.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • It is likely that at this time he met other musicians in the service of the Gonzagas, particularly Hoste da Reggio, a madrigalist who headed whatever musical establishment Ferrante Gonzaga maintained.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • The Gonzagas in Mantua had a prestigious court and Guglielmo, himself also a composer, was an ideal patron.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • On the other hand, we can experience its art and thus in a very real way enter into Renaissance Mantua by looking at a painting by Andrea Mantegna, court painter to the Gonzagas, the rulers of Mantua; the very painting that their eyes actually rested upon.

    Why Should We Care? Philippe de Montebello 2008

  • Mantegna had done his best work for more than two decades for the Gonzagas.

    Mantegna's Singular Jesus 2007

  • These have been one of the star holdings of the Palace since they were brought from Italy by Charles I: a series of nine canvases depicting the extravagant triumphal procession of Julius Caesar in 46 BC, originally painted for the Gonzagas of Mantua in the late fifteenth century and hyped by Vasari as the best thing Mantegna ever did.

    Making it with Mantegna 2006

  • Butlers, the Temples, the Gonzagas they're long gone.

    USATODAY.com - Parity stops at door to men's Final Four 2001

  • Or the Gonzagas, the other Western New York family, could have whacked him.

    Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001

  • Long ago this marvellous miniature, that even to-day seems to shine like a precious stone, was in the possession of the Gonzagas of Mantua, from whom it is supposed the Medici bought it.

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

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