SFORZA CASTLE MILAN ARCHITECTURE LEONARDO DA VINCI ITALY MAXIMUM CARD

Description

FIRST DAY OF ISSUE SPECIAL PICTORIAL MATCHING POSTMARK * LEONARDO & OTHER FAMOUS ARTISTS WORKED IN THIS CASTLE * IT NOW HOSTS MUSEUMS with an art collection which includes Michelangelo’s last sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà, Andrea Mantegna’s Trivulzio Madonna and both Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Trivulzianus manuscript and Sala Delle Asse.

**** A Maximum Card is a picture postcard with a postage stamp affixed on the view side cancelled (postmarked) with maximum concordance between elements (depiction on stamp matching the depiction on postcard – or elements of it — with a postmark that is as closely related as possible to what is depicted on stamp and postcard)