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Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. c. 1471. Tempera on panel, 65 x 42 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Piero Pollaiuolo painted the portrait from the design of his brother, Antonio on the occasion of the visit of Sforza to Florence. The identity of the person portrayed is beyond any doubt since there exists a copy of the work bearing Sforza ...
The year of Ippolita Maria's birth we know through the following mentioned letter: "Another letter, from 1450, describes a display by the 5-year-old Ippolita Maria Sforza before the French ambassador." (in: Evelyn S. Welch: Sight, Sound and Ceremony in the Chapel of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, in: Early Music History, Vol. 12, 1993, pp. 151-190).
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This painting depicts Galeazzo Maria, fifth duke of Milan, son of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti. The modes of representation are those typical...
The succession of the Duchy of Milan was consigned to the young Giovanni Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1468-1493) and this was, in reality, the occasion that Ludovico Maria Sforza (1451-1510), brother of Galeazzo Maria and known as Il Moro, was awaiting to implement his plan to appropriate himself of the Duchy. Text by Fausto Pace
Galeazzo Maria Sforza was born in Fermo, near the family's castle of Girifalco, the first son of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti. At the death of his father (March 8, 1466), Galeazzo was in France at the head of a military expedition to help King Louis XI of France against Charles I of Burgundy.
