Alcuni indizi per l’identificazione del ‘Maestro della pala sforzesca’

The ‘Master of the Sforza Altarpiece’ is one of the unresolved mysteries of Milan at the time of the Sforza family and, more generally, of the history of art. Recently, however, it has been proposed that the artist might be identified as Giovanni Angelo Mirofoli from Seregno. This paper presents a series of elements that makes this identification plausible. An ‘Annunciation’, hidden in a small town in France, is here attributed to the ‘Master’ due to its similarities with a drawing by him in the Museé du Louvre and with his frescoes in the church of San Giorgio in Annone Brianza. It is argued that this ‘Annunciation’, made up of two wings, might have been part of the lost organ shutters that Mirofoli painted in 196 [English Abstracts] 1491 for the Duomo of Milan.