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2 days ago · The artist’s family did have connections with the local nobility but only on Caravaggio’s mother’s side. His maternal grandfather, Giovan Giacomo Aratori, was a land surveyor who acted directly as an agent for Francesco Sforza I, serving as a legal witness for the Sforza family and collecting rents on their behalf.
- Mannerism
Mannerism originated as a reaction to the harmonious...
- Merovingian Dynasty
Merovingian dynasty. Chlotar III (died March 10/11, 673) was...
- Mannerism
4 days ago · Caterina Sforza was born in 1463 CE into the illustrious and powerful Sforza family of Milan, a family known for their influence and political maneuvering in Renaissance Italy. She was the illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan , and his mistress, Lucrezia Landriani.
4 days ago · Chambers, similarly, argues that in their campaign to have a Florentine raised to the rank of cardinal, the Medici acted ‘more as a ruling family than as dominant citizens’ (p. 208), following the pattern of the Gonzaga, the Paleologo, the Aragonese rulers of Naples, and the Sforza.
3 days ago · The House of Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər /) was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd , a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois .
4 days ago · Berber, any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. The Berbers live in scattered communities across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Mauritania. They speak various Amazigh languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family related to ancient Egyptian.
4 days ago · Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and ...
