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DAVINCI - LUDOVICO SFORZA
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Duke of Milan |
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Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, portrait of Ludovico il Moro,
c. 1500, collection of Prince Trivulzio, Milan |
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- Ludovico Maria Sforza (1452-1508), also known as Ludovico il Moro ('the
Moor'), an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.
- The painting was originally attributed to Giovanni
Boltraffio but recent studies are proving that it was
created by Leonardo DaVinci about 1500.
Medal |
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With lavish but enlightened patronage of artists and scholars, Ludovico made the court of Milan the most splendid not only in Italy but in Europe.
- Leonardo DaVinci and the architect Donato Bramante were among the many artists, poets, and musicians who gathered in Milan.
Moro |
- Ludovico married Beatrice d’Este, the beautiful and cultured daughter of the
Duke of Ferrara.
- The marriage proved to be unusually harmonious, in spite of Ludovico’s mistresses, and Beatrice bore him two sons, Massimiliano and Francesco, both of whom later became
Dukes of Milan.
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- A drawing and details of Ludovico Sforza by
Leonardo DaVinci, was compared to the painting that was misattributed to
Giovanni Boltraffio.
- The Morellian Method, which uses
subconscious patterns as the basis for the identification of
the artistic style of the artist, was used to determine that
the artist is really DaVinci.
Spade shaped |
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Using this method, at the bottom in the hair of both
the painting and the drawing,
a spade shaped element was isolated, that showed an exact
similarity.
- The drawing and the painting are subjectively
unrelated, yet they share a physical stylistic relationship.
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