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Caterina Sforza

Caterina Sforza as the young wife of Girolamo Riario


 

Caterina Sforza (top right)

presumably with her mother Lucrezia Landriani and her half-brother Gian Galeazzo Maria II. (left), the young Duke of Milan


 

Caterina Sforza (right) was immortalised in this painting by the painter Sandro Botticelli


 

Caterina Sforza


 

Caterina Sforza in the tradition of the Milanese dynasty as St. Catherine of Alexandria


 

Caterina Sforza in the tradition of the Milanese dynasty as St. Catherine of Alexandria with the Sforza-symbol of the hooked nose


 

Caterina Sforza


 

Caterina Sforza


 

Caterina Sforza


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with the Child Jesus and six angels


 

Caterina Sforza with her youngest son as the Virgin and the Child Jesus


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin


 

Caterina Sforza three times as the Virgin


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with her children


 

Caterina Sforza or her sister Anna Maria Sforza as the Virgin


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin and St. Catherine of Alexandria

her third husband, Giovanni de'Medici, is depicted as Saint Sebastian (on the right side) and her youngest son Giovanni as the Child Jesus Christ; next to him we can see Botticelli, who is waving to us. Botticelli is not the painter of this holy scene, who possibly was a student of him and is the person on the far left side or the second person on the left side


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with two of her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with her youngest child


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with some of her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with some of her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with two of her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with her youngest son


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with her youngest son


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin with some of her children


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin


 

Caterina Sforza


 

Caterina Sforza (left)

with presumably her son Ottaviano and her half-sister Stella (on the right side) – her husband Girolamo Riario is depicted as Saint Anne (this kind of representation has a long tradition in the Milanese dynasty of the Visconti-Sforza)


 

Caterina Sforza

as Goddess Venus with some symbols of her Visconti-Sforza dynasty, the roses, daisies, and the shell


 

Caterina Sforza as the Virgin


 

Caterina Sforza as Saint Agnes