But she kept Leonardo’s portrait of her until her death in 1536, hanging it in her chambers. A live ermine may not seem like a natural accessory for a young lady, but it wasn’t quite as odd ...

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ...

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.

Among the multiple masterpieces given a scrupulous examination in “Leonardo da Vinci” is “Lady With an Ermine” (1486-89), which marked a turning point, we are told, in the artist’s ...

Leonardo da Vinci's Lady With an Ermine (1489) depicts Cecilia Gallerani, a mistress of the Duke of Milan. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Fragrances were also believed to ward off disease.

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works ... protectively, around the ermine. The way the eyes of the ermine, and the eyes of the lady, are both glancing in the same direction.

“Leonardo da Vinci” airs in two parts on PBS Nov.18 and Nov. 19 "Lady with an Ermine," by Leonardo Da Vinci. Walnut Panel. Its subject is Cecilia Gallerani, mistress to Ludovico Sforz ...

“The way we absorb the world is all at once, and that’s the simultaneous, gluttonous impact that you get from his notebooks,” del Toro says of da Vinci. Simultaneity is essential to Leonardo ...