Lady with an Ermine: The Setter of Mysterious Portraiture
Channel: CREAR Art and Culture
Date: 01/03/2021

Painted a decade before the Mona Lisa, the 'Lady with an Ermine' is the portrait of Ludovico’s mystress Cecilia, Leonardo’s patron for over 18 years.

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Artworks featured:
Leonardo da Vinci:
- Lady with an Ermine (1489-1490), Czartoryski Museum.
- Ginevra de' Benci (c. 1474-1478), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- La belle ferronnière (1490s), Louvre Museum.
- Mona Lisa (c. 1503-1506), Louvre Museum.

Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Portrait of Ludovico Sforza (late 15th century), Castle Trivulzio Library.