The British Library has put a missing PAGE IN PLACE in the 500 year old “Sforza Book of Hours.” The £10 million masterpiece, a book of psalms, prayers and a calendar, was illustrated by celebrated Milanese miniaturist Giovan Pietro Birago at the bequest of Duke Galaezzo Maria Sforza of Milan for his wife, Bona of Savoy, in the year 1490.
Read about the patron, the artist, the rejected artist (Leonardo Da Vinci no less), the Austrian buyer, the light-fingered monk, the researchers at the British Museum, the New York art dealer, the Chicago art dealer and all the other heroes and villains in this amazing story here.
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