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3 days ago · In The Virgin and Child with Four Saints and Twelve Devotees, by (unknown) Master of the Pala Sforzesca, circa 1490, Gian Galeazzo Sforza is shown in prayer facing his wife, Isabella of Aragon ...
6 days ago · 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. Satan ordered him to build a church – and not just any church. Diabolical images would decorate the church or the Devil would take his soul.
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 8, 2024 · STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An early morning raid in the customarily quiet residential area of Eltingville on Wednesday resulted in the arrest of a man and the seizure of an arsenal of weapons and ...
5 days ago · Our students further mourn the 4,400 Allied soldiers who perished in Normandy, including 13 from our hometown of Staten Island. One million New Yorkers served in World War II, of whom 43,254 died.
May 12, 2024 · Bernardo da Venezia was an Italian architect and sculptor of the Renaissance. Active in Lombardy as an architect, stonemason and wood carver, at the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth. He was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to build the Certosa di Pavia .
