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Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. Mother. Lucrezia Landriani. Caterina Sforza (1463 – 28 May 1509) was an Italian noblewoman, the Countess of Forlì and Lady of Imola, firstly with her husband Girolamo Riario, and after his death as a regent of her son Ottaviano .
1967. Hill, George Francis, and Graham Pollard. Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art. London, 1967: no. 283 (Appendix). 1983. Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 39, no. 9. 1987.
Caterina Sforza was an Italian noblewoman and Countess of Forli and Lady of Imola. Bibliography Hill, Sir George Francis, 'A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini', Vol. 1, (London : 1930), p.296.
Description. Cast lead medal. (whole) (whole) Bust of Caterina Sforza-Riario facing left, wearing a widow's veil with queue hanging down her back and square cut bodic. Border of incised circles. (obverse) (obverse) Winged Victory in girdled tunic driving to the right, a cart drawn by two prancing winged horses.
Jun 1, 2011 · Although not strictly speaking a biography, de Vries treats Sforza (the illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza) as both wife of Girolamo Riario (1477–1488) and later widow/regent (1488–1500) of his territories in chapters on court ceremony, architecture, the splendor of material culture, and religious and literary patronage.
- Holly S. Hurlburt
- 2011
Aug 24, 2021 · Sforza bore at least eight children with Riario, six of whom survived infancy, and she became regent for her son Ottaviano (b. 1479–d. 1533) when Riario was assassinated in 1488. She survived several conspiracies against her rule of Imola and Forlì in the 1490s, and she was deposed only when Cesare Borgia (b. 1475/76–d. 1507) invaded the ...
Lorenzo di Credi. Caterina Sforza, 1487. Museo di Forlì, Italy. The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
