a traumatized child who had to deal with her scars, and also a person with great tenacity and capacity of love. She functioned for her husband only as a figurehead expected at certain occasions, while he sealed himself emotionally in order to be able to go his own way. In 2019, The jewelry producer Swarovski created a replica of her lost bridal jewellery, displayed on her bust portrait (paired with Maximilian's bust) created by Viennese artist Tibor Bogdan. Commemoration The empress is commemorated by various folk festivals in South Germany and Austria (especially by cities she had visited when she was alive), usually portrayed by an reenactor and paired with her husband), including the Oktoberfest in Munich, the Weißenauer Fest In Ravensburg, the in Kaufbeuren, the festivals in Füssen (where she spent her happiest days – her honeymoon - in 1493, and where she wept when meeting him again in 1498), in Mindelheim, in Reutte, in Rattenberg. Notes External links Youtube video with an introduction of the Wedding Hours of Bianca Maria and Maximilian Citations References and literature and External links Bianca Maria Sforza at the aeiou Encyclopedia'' Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza at the National Gallery |- |- |- |- 1472 births 1510 deaths Nobility from Milan Bianca Maria Sforza Bianca Maria Sforza Bianca Maria Sforza Bianca Maria Bianca Maria Sforza Bianca Maria Sforza 16th-century Italian nobility Austrian royal consorts 15th-century Italian women 15th-century women of the Holy Roman Empire 16th-century women of the Holy Roman Empire Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Remarried royal consorts