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May 22, 2024 · The intense and updated dialogue between the Marche-born artist’s painting and European Gothic goldsmithery originated when he attended the court of Gian Galeazzo Visconti in Pavia, and when working on the site of Milan Cathedral, where he would forge his figurative culture in the 1390s.
May 6, 2024 · Another remarkable example of ostentatious Italian medieval altarpieces is found in the ivory altarpiece of the Carthusian monastery of Pavia. It was commissioned in the 1390s by Gian Galeazzo Visconti from Baldassarre degli Embriachi.
May 23, 2024 · published 23 May 2024. Metal detectorists have unearthed a cache of gold and silver coins hidden in a mountain range in Poland that once belonged to a legendary con artist. Two of the many silver ...
6 days ago · May 28, 2024. Rare coins, found in Poland's Jeleniowskie mountain range, may have belonged to an infamous 18th-century fraudster. Swietokrzyska Exploration Group. A Polish group searching for lost ...
3 days ago · During the regency of Galeazzo II and Gian Galeazzo the memory of the capital's role and the Lombard traditions of Pavia jointly entered the "propaganda" of the new masters of Pavia: Galeazzo II moved his court from Milan to Pavia and between 1361 and 1365 Galeazzo II built a large palace (Visconti castle) with a major Park (Visconti Park ...
May 25, 2024 · Aristocrat Gian Galeazzo Visconti ordered its construction. Yet the reason for its construction is a little less than holy. According to legend, the Devil appeared in one of Visconti’s dreams in 1386.
May 27, 2024 · 379. Bartolommeo Chalco, Ducal Secretary, to Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan. The King of England on the 10th February took St. Omer; 3,500 English entered the gates at the third hour of the night shouting “Burgundy and England.” The French sent a large force against them but it availed them little.
