Lady with an Ermin painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Lady with the Ermine (No. 1) is one of four surviving female figures by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, the other featuring Ginevra Benci, La Belle Ferronniere, and Mona Lisa. Cecilia Gallerani, the wife of Ludovico Sforza il Moro, Governor of Milan, is his headmaster, and Leonard was a painter in Sforza court at the time of his assassination.

Leonardo da Vinci's painting (1489-1490) was acquired by the Czartoryski Foundation of the Polish Department of Cultural Affairs and Heritage of the Krakow National Museum in 2016 and exhibited in a large building in 2017. The painting was painted on oil wood panels. The title "The Lady with the Ermine," is an ancient example of high Renaissance paintings in the Chiaroscuro style. It shows a young woman with curly hair holding a large white snake in her hands (also called ermine).

This oil painting is an excellent example of Da Vinci's interest in anatomy realism, and the use of a large white easel (also called ermine) as a symbol has a meaning related to both the concept of the painting and its master. White ermine has the significance of the sacred saint of the image, Ludovico Sforza, who called the white ermine by his membership in the ermine border. Ludovico Sforza's queen Cecilia Gallerani appears in Leonardo's portrait at the Louvre and the woman is always very much like Prince Adam George Czartoryski, the son of Izabela Czaroryska, the prince of Flemming (Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski) who thought his wife was the same.

This flawless image is one of four female paintings Da Vinci created while working. And we are one of four portraits of Leonardo's women, another Mona Lisa, Ginevra, Benci, and La Belle Ferronniere. This image is the first Renaissance painting of a woman who shows not only her beauty but also her personality and spirit.

In addition, The Immaculate Portrait is one of the three oil paintings made by Da Vinci in the world. From about 1489-1491, Lady and Ermine (No. 1) were painted on an oil panel made of walnut wood.

Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of the Lady with the Ermine (1489-1490) portrays Cecilia Gallerani as the young wife of Ludovico Sforza, fuchsia, and Duke of Milan. One of Leonardo's earliest paintings of women, this painting was painted a decade ago before turning to the intricate designs of the Mona Lisa. One of his first portraits of a woman was a woman named Cecilia, Duke's wife.

The Lady with Ermine is a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, a handsome young woman who was Ludovico Sforza's favorite wife in a Milan court and later married the Governor of Milan. The first scene dates back to the 17th century. A feature of the painting, known as Cecilia, may have been painted when Lodovico Sforza was the wife of the Duchess of Milan, while Leonard worked for the regent. Leonardo da Vinci is known to have painted a portrait of Sforza's wife, but the woman in the picture remains unknown to scholars until the 20th century.

Leonardo da Vinci is one of Poland's greatest treasures and has an unusual history with a portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, also known as a lady with ermine. The lady with the ermine is the young Prince Adam Czartoryski, a hero of the Polish liberation struggle, and her mother was an enthusiastic collector and founder of the Tsar Museum.

In this regard, it can be argued that the images of Piotr Michalowski and Stanislaw Wyspianski found in the Krakow collection are more impressive than the lady with Ermine. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. You can almost feel the wife, Duke Ludovico Sforza, a character in the quality of the children's book by Monty Python singer Terry Gilliam, who is very entertaining at his Flying Circus events.

Da Vinci, who is very fond of the animal world, was so fond of white ermine that he made many drawings at the same time as painting. This painting is a good example of Leonardo's painting style with its distinctive fall of light and shadow. Like some of Leonardo's paintings (see The Virgin and the Rock in the Louvre Museum for example), The Lady with Ermine has a pyramid-shaped structure, and the woman is constantly caught in the ermine turn, showing Leonard's keen interest in the powerful effects of travel.

Leonardo da Vinci's makeup was thought to contain white ermine, but French scientist Pascal Cotte discovered after three years of research that Da Vinci painted his "Lady with Ermine" art (1489-90) not in one category but in three different categories. The retouches of Da Vinci's paintings are designed in such a way that the dress was not only visually appealing but also resembled "Galleranis" hair color.