X was born in Italy in 1479 and at the age of 15 was married to a modestly successful silk & cloth merchant. Years after their marriage, her husband commissioned a portrait of her. However in the middle of the assignment, the artist found more important work, leaving the portrait unfinished for years.
The artist was finally able to complete the work many years later, but never gave it back to X’s family.
Can you identify X, the subject of this portrait?
Tag: Leonardo da Vinci
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Santa Maria delle Grazie (“Holy Mary of Grace”) is a lovely, if initially unassuming, 15th-century terracotta-stone church and convent located in Milan, Italy. While every brick of the church is rightly regarded as an architectural and artistic jewel, there’s something special about the north wall in the dining hall that led to the building’s designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On the night of August 15, 1943, an Allied aerial strike partly destroyed the site — that north wall was one of the few left standing, having been protected since the start of World War II by sandbags and scaffolding.
Why is that wall so important?
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Connect the following figures. Who’s the latest one to join them?
