Bonino da Campione/ Maestranze campionesi sec. XIV, Ritratto equestre di Bernabò Visconti, Allegorie della Giustizia e della Fortezza, Cristo in pietà e santi
CODES / CLASSIFICATION
OBJECT
Ritratto equestre di Bernabò Visconti, Allegorie della Giustizia e della Fortezza, Cristo in pietà e santi
Arca di Bernabò Visconti
marmo
AUTHOR
Dating
sec. XIV, seconda metà
1360 - 1386 ca.
LOCATIONS
Castello Sforzesco, Museo d'Arte Antica, Milano (Lombardia, Italia)
inv. 733 bis
NOTES
Foto sup 119, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "Milan. Brera. / Monument of Bernabò Visconti, tyrant of Milan, he of the 5000 dogs, husband of / Regina della Scala, daughter of Mastino; her mausoleum is near his. / His equestrian statue with Justice and Fortitude at its sides was put up by him / in 1370 in the high altar of San Giovanni in conca, and, on his death in 1385, / removed to his sarcophagus in the same church. [...] Bernabò's bones / are now in S. Alessandro, and his monument and that of the wife [...] on the site of which the great theatre now / stands, are in the Museo Civico".
