Leonardo da Vinci’s 'The Lady with an Ermine,' a Beguiling Portrait of Elegant Mystique

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2019
  • As the world marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, we revisit one of the Italian master’s most beguiling works, The Lady with an Ermine, also known as Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani. This portrait of the 15th-century mistress of the Duke of Milan is dense with meanings and symbols - not least the eponymous ermine - and compositionally elaborate. It was also a precursor to the Mona Lisa in how it portrayed a woman’s mystique in an elegant manner.

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  • @alexanderjimenez8462
    @alexanderjimenez8462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    From all the masterpieces da Vinci created this is my favorite 🙏

  • @lucvanhecke4087
    @lucvanhecke4087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This work is better than the Mona Lisa...
    before 1911 la Gioconda was not a famous painting at all till it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and only recovered in 1913..during that time the painting got a lot of attention in the news papers... that's why it became famous more, the Mona Lisa is in France, at the lady with the Ermine is not in France...and that makes a huge difference

  • @jack47531
    @jack47531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Da Vinci's most sensual painting & Poland's treasure.

  • @edwardgyu7990
    @edwardgyu7990 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    so beautiful!!! i like this one more than Mona Lisa TBH :) :)

    • @quotesandstuf
      @quotesandstuf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's so mush more beautiful than Mona Lisa.

  • @ROMANABSOLUT
    @ROMANABSOLUT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    THIS is my FAVORITE picture ever.

  • @phmwu7368
    @phmwu7368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Oil on wood, painted in 1490, nowadays one of Poland's national treasures in the Czartoryski museum Krakow

  • @aleena5960
    @aleena5960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Don't know why I was having goosebumps while watching this.

  • @Danielevans2
    @Danielevans2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is so cool! Seeing a technical digital analysis of a painting!!

  • @arthur__spooner
    @arthur__spooner 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very good documentation! 🤩

  • @LelasMum
    @LelasMum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a wonderful and informative explanation!

  • @paulandreigillesania5359
    @paulandreigillesania5359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very beautiful video once again~

  • @kshannonk1469
    @kshannonk1469 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow I have this painting nice 👍

  • @landwardprawn2099
    @landwardprawn2099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She's beautiful ❤️

  • @AldoOlivera-vw8ir
    @AldoOlivera-vw8ir 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Larga vida al gran..
    Leonardo Da Vinci

  • @binghamguevara6814
    @binghamguevara6814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    a smile dawns on her lips

    • @abba3642
      @abba3642 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Andvher hips too

  • @marieadams3720
    @marieadams3720 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favourite!

  • @Mustlovebooks15
    @Mustlovebooks15 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I really want to see this painting irl but I don’t ever see myself making it to Poland. It’s definitely my favorite of his paintings

  • @oleingemannk
    @oleingemannk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    More of this!

  • @angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl
    @angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful

  • @matisseh9054
    @matisseh9054 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    hey i reach the same kind of video but in French, can you help me? Thx

  • @lucjanpetroniusz4970
    @lucjanpetroniusz4970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Masterpiece! Polish pride!

  • @gwendolyn7462
    @gwendolyn7462 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my favorite too; should have left the steel blue background. Maybe yopu can get that back

  • @loncarevictereza7924
    @loncarevictereza7924 ปีที่แล้ว

    Das ist Heilige Ana oder wer ist sie das zweites Frau bei Leonard da Vinci

  • @ameliawaite9419
    @ameliawaite9419 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my Grammy great grandmother

  • @elderlypoodle9181
    @elderlypoodle9181 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gorgeous! The ermine looks quite tame. Was it a taxidermy?

    • @lordcawdorofmordor2549
      @lordcawdorofmordor2549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's suggested it's not even real

    • @ROMANABSOLUT
      @ROMANABSOLUT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @elderly poodle -
      Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal's body via mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study. Animals are often, but not always, portrayed in a lifelike state. The word taxidermy describes the process of preserving the animal, but the word is also used to describe the end product, which are called taxidermy mounts or referred to simply as "taxidermy".
      The word taxidermy is derived from the Greek words taxis and derma. Taxis means "arrangement", and derma means "skin" (the dermis).The word taxidermy translates to "arrangement of skin".
      Taxidermy is practiced primarily on vertebrates (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and less commonly on amphibians) but can also be done to larger insects and arachnids under some circumstances. Taxidermy takes on a number of forms and purposes including hunting trophies and natural history museum displays. Museums use taxidermy as a method to record species, including those that are extinct and threatened, in the form of study skins and life-size mounts. Taxidermy is sometimes also used as a means to memorialize pets.
      A person who practices taxidermy is called a taxidermist. They may practice professionally, catering to museums and sportsman (hunters and fishermen), or as amateurs (hobbyists). A taxidermist is aided by familiarity with anatomy, sculpture, painting, and tanning.
      Source : Wikipedia

    • @ABELTHESTAR
      @ABELTHESTAR ปีที่แล้ว

      No you can find leonardo’s sketches from while he was making this painting- he liked to study the anatomy of animals- he used a bear like skull and dog paws as references for the ermine. It was all made with his own brain. Very cooool.

  • @stephenshillitoe817
    @stephenshillitoe817 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is not an ermine. An ermine is typically 23-31 cm in length including it's 5.4-8.5 cm tail. They are very slightly built with a maximum weight of around 110g. In this portrait, Cecilia Gallerani is holding a large male albino ferret.

  • @hughgordon6435
    @hughgordon6435 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ldvic was known as "the moor" so making him a member of the ermine was an attempt to whiten him??? The ermine was also a sign 9f virtue, so by handling the ermine in the way she does she has "tamed"/conquered Leonards vertue? I love this 0a8nting on soo many levels. It is da Vincent s joker sense of humor laid out 8n 0ka8n v8ew?

  • @irishfairytarot5674
    @irishfairytarot5674 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The blue background is so much nicer! Leo would not approve!

  • @demistoclesps5465
    @demistoclesps5465 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The feet,resulte a 5 the work nule algains straid.....8 SA..

  • @jacobfield4848
    @jacobfield4848 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is not a Da Vinci painting. Just another fake.

  • @nakinilerak
    @nakinilerak 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cecilia Gallerani managed to make a success of her life in an age and a place that treated women as chattels with no rights. Check out her Wikipedia page.

  • @andreaandrea6877
    @andreaandrea6877 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    she looks better than Mona Lisa who is basically Leonardo with a wig on

  • @shawn0md
    @shawn0md 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I liked the music more than the painting

  • @matisseh9054
    @matisseh9054 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    hey i reach the same kind of video but in French, can you help me? Thx