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 ...

Now, the remarkable story of the portrait - which is one of only four da Vinci paintings of women still in existence - has been told in Eden Collinsworth's new book, titled What the Ermine Saw.

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 ...

A history of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-Century portrait, “Lady With an Ermine,” is also a history of modern Europe. Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani or Lady with an Ermine, 1488-1490 ...

In 1498, the Duchess borrowed Leonardo's portrait from Cecilia. Some researchers also noticed that the Greek word for an ermine – gale – echoes the first two syllables of the Cecilia's last name, ...

In the opinion of British art historian John Pope Hennessy, “Lady With an Ermine” is “the first painting in European art to introduce the idea that a portrait may express the sitter’s ...

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.

Mr Cotte has shown the artist painted one portrait without the ermine and two with different versions of the fur. Leonardo experts have described the new findings as "thrilling" and said the ...

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 ...

Among the multiple masterpieces given a scrupulous examination in “Leonardo da Vinci” is “Lady With an Ermine ... the duke of Milan, and a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, the teenage ...

For the portrait displayed on the wall has long been ... The painting enjoys a mysterious title: "The Lady With an Ermine." But historians now feel confident that she is Cecilia Gallerani, a ...