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Bernabò or Barnabò Visconti (1323 – 19 December 1385) was an Italian soldier and statesman who was Lord of Milan. Along with his brothers Matteo and Galeazzo II, he inherited the lordship of Milan from his uncle Giovanni. Later in 1355, he and Galeazzo II were rumoured to have murdered their brother Matteo since he endangered the regime.
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The Visconti of Milan are a noble Italian family. ... 6 May 1385, Bernabò Visconti is arrested by the men of his nephew Gian Galeazzo Visconti (19th-century engraving)
In Visconti Family. 1319–55) died, Bernabò (1323–85) and Galeazzo II ( c. 1321–78) divided Milan and its territory, Bernabò taking the eastern area and Galeazzo II the western. Established at Pavia (south of Milan), Galeazzo II became a patron of artists and poets, including Petrarch, and founded the University of Pavia.….
The work has been documented in detail through photographs, non-invasive UV analysis and fibre optic video-microscope and graphical surveys regarding the executive technique, the state of conservation and previous interventions.
Bernabò Visconti is triumphant atop horseback, a long representational tradition of men on horseback to imply power, authority, and dominance. Directly under the horse and rider sits the Four Evangelists with Saint Gregory the Great and Saint Jerome.
The Visconti Castle of Trezzo was a mediaeval castle built between 1370 and 1377 by Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan, at Trezzo sull'Adda, Lombardy, Northern Italy. It included a massive tower, 42-meter high, and a fortified bridge on the Adda river on a single arch with a record 72-meter span. [1] [2]
The Duke of Milan, Bernabò Visconti sent his illegitimate son Ambrose to quell the revolt, but he was captured and killed in Opreno, near Caprino Bergamasco. Bernabò, cruel by nature, took hard revenge: he went himself in the valley and ordered to set fire to many Guelph villages along with inhabitants.
