Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), owned by the Princes Czartoryski Foundation, is considered by many to be the most precious artwork in Polish collections. The painting, purchased ...

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 ...

French scientist Pascal Cotte has astounded art historians with a major discovery about Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Lady With an Ermine (1489-90), the BBC reports. Until now, it had been a ...

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.

The Lady with an Ermine, probably painted between 1489 and 1490, is one of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces. The painting depicts Cecilia Gallerani, a young woman at the court of Ludovico Sforza ...

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 ...

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'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.

Could we, for example, truly feel like we were there as 'Lady with an Ermine' was first created ... having developed a scented pen for Leonardo da Vinci's 15th century painting, which visitors ...

For the portrait displayed on the wall has long been venerated as one of Leonardo da Vinci's most consummate ... enjoys a mysterious title: "The Lady With an Ermine." But historians now feel ...