Lady With an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci - new article

[Jaga]

Please, check the history of one of the most famous world paintings in Polish museum - Lady With an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci
it was taken to Poland due to Prince Adam Czartoryski. It portrays the mistress of Italian nobleman Ludovico Sforza whose grand niece became a queen of Poland.
Its history during WW II was also quite unique

it is posted here:
www.polishsite.us/index.php/culture-and-tradition/art-and-folklore/504-lady-with-an-ermine-by-leonardo-da-vinci.html

[karl]

Jaga

Thank you for presenting this very interesting presentation of the Painting",Lady With An Ermine". The history of this art was very fascinating to read with the travels that took it about and then to return to Poland.

My self of course have never seen the actual painting, but have admired it from photos.

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl,

I was hoping that it would be interesting for you, since you like the history!

[pieter]

Jaga,

I loved the Lady With an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci when I saw it in April 2004 in Kraków. I even like it more than the Mona Lisa I saw in The Louvre museum in Paris, by the same painter. It was very interesting to read the story of Martin S. Nowak about the Lady With an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci. And reading the story of the painting it is a miracle that it survived the travels between Poland and France, Poland and Germany (Dresden), the First and Second Worldwar. Thank god it was repatriated to Poland from Dresden in Germany. Would it have stayed there it would have been destroyed during the heavy allied bombardments of the city in by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) between 13 and 15 February 1945. The bombing raid on Dresden destroyed almost all of the ancient center of the city in three waves of attacks. Thank god the Dresden museum reluctantly returned the Lady With an Ermine to the Czartoryski Museum in a free Poland in the 1920s.

Cheers,
Pieter