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6 days ago · Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( c. 1450–1455 – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the Franco-Flemish School and had a profound influence on the music of 16th-century Europe.
1 day ago · Her 1490 marriage to Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, positioned Isabella at the heart of Italian politics. And this role was both complicated and elevated by the ambitions and machinations of Ludovico Sforza (also called Ludovico il Moro), her husband’s uncle and usurper of the Milanese dukedom.
1 day ago · The work was commissioned as part of a plan of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Leonardo's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. In order to permit his inconsistent painting schedule and frequent revisions, it is painted with materials that allowed for regular alterations: tempera on gesso, pitch, and mastic.
6 days ago · The artist made his first flying machine drawings in the 1480s, while serving as painter and engineer to Milanese duke Ludovico Sforza. Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500, the year after Sforza lost power, then went to Rome to serve as senior military architect and engineer to the son of Pope Alexander VI.
3 days ago · A Fernando Palaiologos, referred to as the "son of the Despot of the Morea" by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, in 1499 might also have been a son of Andreas. Andreas's brother Manuel died in Constantinople at some point during the reign of Mehmed II's son and successor Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512).
May 21, 2024 · Ludovico Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, to Henry VII, King of England. (fn. 20) Lorenzo Bonvisi, citizen of Lucca, is about to return from his native place to your Majesty's realm.
5 days ago · Stefano Taberna, Milanese Ambassador at Rome, to Ludovico Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. The Venetian ambassador told me he had letters from the Signory instructing him to beg the pope to send to his ambassador in England and to proceed against the King of France by censure and interdict.
