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3 unusual facts about Sforza Hours


Bona of Savoy

Bona of Savoy commissioned the Sforza Book of Hours manuscript, which was painted in about 1490 by a famous court artist, Giovan Pietro Birago.

Sforza Hours

It provides a unique example of an early fifteenth-century Northern Renaissance illuminator's response to Milanese art of the late Quattrocento.

Margaret, who was the daughter of the Habsburg Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, moved to the Netherlands in 1506 as Regent for her nephew Charles and there she became one of the great patrons of the Northern Renaissance (the Arnolfini Portrait was a notable item in her collection).



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