Art History Leonardo’s ‘Lady With an Ermine’ Is a Riddle of Love and Power—Here Are 3 of Its Secrets. We took a closer look at this enigmatic portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, the mistress of ...

The Lady With an Ermine is a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, an alluring young woman from the Milanese court who was a favorite mistress of Ludovico Sforza, the married Duke of Milan.

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance.

Stop and smell the art: Polish museum captures original scent of da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine' Story by Amber Louise Bryce • 4mo. The crisp musk of an old book.

In fact, the Cecilia portrait, dated around 1489-91 and usually known as Lady with an Ermine, is one of Leonardo’s more prosaic works, though it is beautifully executed with an almost ...

An ermine shares a gaze with Cecilia Gallerani, lady-in-waiting of the Duke of Milan, in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait Lady with an Ermine, circa 1491.Weasels such as this have sharp claws ...

The project was initiated in 2021, after Sawoszczuk was asked by the National Museum in Kraków to assess the air quality inside the glass casing that housed 'Lady with an Ermine'.