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The Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza are two oil paintings by Italian artist Piero della Francesca, dated to 1473–1475. This famed double portrait is often mistitled The Duke and Duchess of Urbino—as it appears on the website of the Uffizi Gallery, which owns it.
Battista Sforza (1446 – 6 or 7 July 1472) was the Duchess of Urbino in 1460-1472 as the second wife of Federico da Montefeltro. She acted as regent during her husband's absences from Urbino.
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Guidantonio da Montefeltro, or possibly Bernardino Ubaldini della Carda. Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro KG (7 June 1422 – 10 September 1482), was one of the most successful mercenary captains ( condottieri) of the Italian Renaissance, and lord of Urbino from 1444 (as Duke from 1474) until his death.
- IT IS A DIPTYCH. The profile portraits, displayed today as a pair of paintings, are tempera works painted on wooden panels. However, in the past, they were connected by hinges, which locked the Duke and Duchess's gazes.
- PORTRAITS OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF URBINO DEPICTS A MERCENARY DUKE. The work captures the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro. He was the commander of a band of mercenaries who would be hired out by Italian city-states to battle on their behalf.
- THE DUCHESS'S PORTRAIT WAS PAINTED IN MEMORIAL. Before Piero could complete the matching panel, the 26-year-old Duchess Battista Sforza died of acute pneumonia brought on by childbirth on July 7, 1472.
- THE PROFILES FAVORED THE DUKE'S GOOD SIDE... Though a proud warrior, Montefeltro preferred that his battle scars not be preserved for posterity. A brutal bout of jousting at a tournament cost him his right eye and a chunk of his nose.
Battista Sforza was the daughter of Alessandro Sforza, the ruler of Pesaro, and the wife of Federigo da Montefeltro, the ruler of Urbino. This right picture shows the reverse side of the Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro. It is the image of a triumphal carriage pulled by white horses.
This is the Duke and Duchess of Urbino – Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza. She had just died and this was a commemorative portrait this is a way that he could remember his his wife. We think it was actually painted by Piero della Francesca, possibly from a death mask that had been made of her.
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- Beth Harris,Steven Zucker
Oct 8, 2021 · Federico da Montefeltro (1422–1482) and Battista Sforza (1446–1472) were the count and countess of Urbino, a hill town in the Marches region of eastern Central Italy. The Uffizi Gallery website erroneously refers to them as the “duke and duchess of Urbino.”
