Bentivoglio Altarpiece

The Bentivoglio Altarpiece is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Costa, dating to August 1488.

It is displayed in the Bentivoglio Chapel of the church of San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna, Italy.

It features, above a sumptuous Renaissance architecture, a marble altar with a rich frieze; at the top of is a throne on which the Madonna and Child sit.

At the sides, kneeling, are the two donor husband and wife, Giovanni II Bentivoglio and Ginevra Sforza.

On the left are the daughters (from left, Camilla, Bianca, Francesca, Violante - future spouse of Pandolfo IV Malatesta, Laura, Isotta and Eleonora); on the right the four children (Ermes, Alessandro, Anton Galeazzo and the elder one, Annibale).