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Nor can another reference--specifically to a portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza--be definitely connected with the NGA painting; the commentator, Marcantonio Michiel, describes, in the house of Taddeo Contarini in Venice in 1525, a "retratto in profilo insino alle spalle de Madonna...fiola del signor Lodovico da Milano maritata nello Imperatore ...
Mar 19, 2020 · L’Archivio di Stato di Milano augura una buona Festa del Papà proponendo un estratto della lettera che Bianca Maria Visconti scrisse a Francesco Sforza, suo marito e duca di Milano, per comunicargli la bella notizia della nascita del loro figlio Ludovico il Moro.
National Gallery of Art – Ambrogio de Predis - Bianca Maria Sforza Probably 1493. Oil on panel, 51 x 32.5 cm. Ambrogio de Predis (Italian, c. 1455 after 1508).
May 1, 2022 · He died in 1447, the last of the Visconti in direct male line, and he was succeeded in the duchy, after the short-lived Ambrosian republic, by Francesco Sforza (1401–1466), who had married in 1441 Filippo Maria's only heir, his natural daughter Bianca Maria (1425–1468) by his mistress Agnese del Maino (1401–1465).
Bianca Maria Sforza is the 109th most popular companion (down from 106th in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from Italy (down from 577th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Companion. Bianca Maria Sforza was most famous for being the first wife of Ludovico Sforza, who would later become Duke of Milan.
Site credits. Originally from Romagna, Francesco Sforza was an immensely capable military leader as well as an astute politician. Having previously been hired to defend the city by Filippo Maria Visconti, he successfully laid siege to Milan and was welcomed by the populace as a liberator. On the 25th March 1450, Sforza and his wife Bianca Maria ...
Jun 5, 2021 · He did, however, promote their sister (his niece), Bianca Maria, to the very top of the European social and political hierarchy, by marrying her to Emperor Maximilian I in the Spring of 1494, which achieved several things: the Emperor finally formally invested the Sforza family with the Duchy of Milan, and he joined an alliance to help keep the ...
