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Bianca Giovanna Sforza (1482 – 23 November 1496) was an Italian noblewoman, she was the illegitimate daughter, then legitimized of Ludovico Sforza and his lover Bernardina de Corradis, wife of Galeazzo Sanseverino and favorite of Beatrice d'Este.
Apr 13, 2019 · Bianca Giovanna Sforza was the illegitmate daughter of Ludovico Sforza and Bernardina de Corradis. Born in 1482 she was legitimized in December 1489 and given in marriage to Galeazzo Sanseverino shortly afterwards. ‘Little’ Bianca was seven years old at the time.
Bianca Giovanna Sforza was an Italian noblewoman, she was the illegitimate daughter, then legitimized of Ludovico Sforza and his lover Bernardina de Corradis, wife of Galeazzo Sanseverino and favorite of Beatrice d'Este.
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The portrait is a mixed media drawing in pen and brown ink with red, black and white chalk, on vellum, 33 by 23.9 centimetres (10 by 9Â in)which has been laid down on an oak board. There are signs of restoration with thin paint applied with a brush. Three stitch holes in the left-hand margin of the vellum, indicate that the leaf was once in a bound ...
If the drawing is originally a Leonardo illustration for the present-day Warsaw copy of the Sforziad, its history is the same as that of the book until the drawing was cut out from the volume.The book is known to have been rebound at the turn of the 18th and 19th century. The modern provenance of the drawing is known only from 1955 and is documente...
Pascal Cotte of Lumière Technology in Paris performed a multi-spectral digital scan of the work. The high resolution images were used by Peter Paul Biro, a forensic art examiner who studied a fingerprint on the vellum which he said was "highly comparable" to a fingerprint on Leonardo's unfinished St. Jerome in the Wilderness. In 2010 David Grann pu...
The first study of the drawing was published by Cristina Geddo. Geddo attributes this work to Leonardo based not only on stylistic considerations, extremely high quality and left-handed hatching, but also on the evidence of the combination of black, white and red chalks (the trois crayons technique). Leonardo was the first artist in Italy to use pa...
The New Yorker article discussed the troubling circumstances in which Kemp attributed this work to Leonardo. But apart from this, strong indications are going against the hypothesis of authenticity, and the attribution to Leonardo has been challenged by a number of scholars who showed interest. Among the reasons for doubting its authorship are the ...
The work of art was studied on the PBS program NOVA in 2012 in a program titled Mystery of a Masterpiece, from NOVA/National Geographic/PBS, which aired on January 25, 2012.
Bibliography
1. Geddo, Cristina. "Il pastello ritrovato: un nuovo ritratto di Leonardo?", Artes, 14, 2008-9: 63–87 (with French abstract and the English version "The "Pastel" found: a new Portrait by Leonardo da Vinci?" ). 2. Vezzosi, Alessandro. Nuptial Portrait of a Young Woman, Abstract of the monograph Leonardo Infinito, (accessed 22-05-2014) 3. Kemp, Martin, with Pascal Cotte and Peter Paul Biro (2010). La Bella Principessa: The Story of the New Masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. London: Hodder & Stou...
Hewitt, Simon (2019). Leonardo Da Vinci and the Book of Doom: Bianca Sforza, The Sforziada and Artful Propaganda in Renaissance Milan. ISBNÂ 9781912690572.
"Mystery of the Masterpiece"—episode of Novaabout the workDetailed attribution summary including video excerpts on multispectral scanning and Sforziad verification: "Enhancing the art of seeing – A Leonardo case study". Retrieved 20 October 2019.Martin Kemp, an emeritus professor in art history at Oxford University who began researching the work in 2005, was an early convert, identifying the sitter as Bianca Giovanna Sforza, the...
May 20, 2021 · Biography. Bianca was born in 1482. She was the illegitimate daughter (but legitimized later) of Ludovico Sforza and his mistress Bernardina de Corradis. She was married very young to Galeazzo Sanseverino (son of Roberto Sanseverino and Giovanna da Correggio).
Kemp's detective work led him to a name, Bianca Sforza. An illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, she was married in 1496 to Galeazzo Sanseverino, commander of the Milanese troops and a ...
