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unusual facts about Castello Sforzesco



Giovanni Paolo I Sforza

When his other half-brother Francesco II made a similar attempt (1525), Giovanni Paolo was besieged in the Castello Sforzesco by the Spaniards under Antonio de Leyva; three years later he was again besieged by them in Lodi, this time with victorious results.

Stipo a bambocci

One some surviving examples the Bambocci-figures correspond with each other and are composed in a certain iconographical context, such as the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Paradise on one Stipo a Bambocci in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.


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