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Muzio Attendolo Sforza (28 May 1369 – 4 January 1424) was an Italian condottiero. Founder of the Sforza dynasty, he led a Bolognese-Florentine army at the Battle of Casalecchio . He was the father of Francesco Sforza, who ruled Milan for 16 years.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3]
One of the most famous paintings in the world, the Last Supper was commissioned by Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan and Leonardo’s patron during his first stay in that city, for the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
Most importantly for Renaissance art and architecture, in the 1480s and 1490s he employed Leonardo da Vinci and Bramante, two of the founders of the new High Renaissance style. Patronage of Leonardo Ludovico commissioned a great deal of art, and the most important works produced for him were by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Axis Hall is a large square room located on the ground floor of the northern tower, also known as the Falconer's Tower, of Sforza Castle. Leonardo da Vinci created a gigantic arbor of...
Jan 3, 2021 · The ultra intelligent Leonardo was a towering figure of the Renaissance, a maestro of change who married imagination to the universe. History’s consummate innovator, Leonardo was enviably good at everything, perhaps the most relentlessly curious man in history.
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Muzio Attendolo Sforza (born May 8, 1369, Cotignola [Italy]—died Jan. 4, 1424, Pescara) was a soldier of fortune who played an important role in the wars of his period and whose son Francesco became duke of Milan.
