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Poisoning of Queen Bona painted by Jan Matejko Tomb monument of Bona Sforza in the Basilica di San Nicola, Bari. In February 1556, Bona left Poland for her native Italy with treasures that she had accumulated over 38 years. In May, she reached Bari and took possession of her mother's duchy.
Dec 18, 2020 · The Queen who defied the Holy Roman Emperor | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne. An Italian-born princess and sole heir to the Sforza dukedom, Queen Bona helps us understand how elite Renaissance women acquired, maintained and negotiated power. By Dr Darius von Güttner, University of Melbourne.
May 23, 2016 · Bona Sforza was known to be a typical Italian beauty but many of the paintings depicting her were usually by her enemies, so she was often portrayed as a fat and unattractive woman. Many Polish people hoped that she would be remembered as a negative character in the story of the two last kings of the Jagiellon Dynasty.
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Mar 22, 2024 · Bona, now elderly and widowed since 1548, made the decision to abandon Krakow definitively in 1556. Her influence was now more and more limited and most of the nobility did not have great respect towards the widow queen. Mausoleum of Bona Sforza in the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Bari. Credits: Cultural Heritage.
The Tomb of St. Nicholas (2023). In the church there is a 16th-century Renaissance tomb of Bona Sforza , Queen of Poland , made from marble. The Museum of the Basilica has valuable works of art, including a collection of twelfth-century candelabras donated by King Charles I of Anjou .
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In the church there is a 16th-century Renaissance tomb of Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland, made from marble. The Museum of the Basilica has valuable works of art, including a collection of twelfth-century candelabras donated by King Charles I of Anjou.
Abstract. 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 sculptors working in Naples around 1589–1593.
