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A few years later, archival research clarified the history of the monument between Bona’s death (†19 November 1557) and the founding in the church of the hereditary chapel of the Jagiellonians, the ruling house created after the marriage between the Duchess of Bari and the King of Poland, Sigismund I. [4]
Bona Sforza d'Aragona (2 February 1494 – 19 November 1557) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right. She was a surviving member of the powerful House of Sforza, which had ruled the Duchy of Milan since 1447.
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Nov 22, 2023 · This essay reviews the history of Bona’s monument and reassesses the question of its authorship. New evidence sheds light on the tomb’s models and reconnects its design to late-sixteenth ...
She patronized artists and musicians, funded building projects, and contributed to religious foundations in her duchy. In November 1558, Bona died. She was buried in a magnificent tomb in the cathedral of San Nicolo di Bari. sources: Masellis, Vito. Storia di Bari. Trani: Vecchi, 1960. La Regina Bona Sforza Tra Puglia e Polonia. Conference papers.
Dec 18, 2020 · Queen Bona died on 19 November 1557 in Bari, Italy. The Habsburgs took over the Queen’s Italian estates – including the Duchy of Bari and the Principality of Rossano – without any regard for Bona’s immediate family.
The funeral monument of Bona Sforza, Duchess of Bari and Queen of Poland, in the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Bari, is one of the most known and well documented works of the sixteenth-century sculpture in the South Italy . Since the discovery in
The funerary monument of Bona Sforza, Duchess of Bari and Queen of Poland, in the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari has been a subject of discussion since the uncovering, in 1918, of documents which assign the marble authorship to a team of minor
