In a meeting of art and science, researchers from Ghent University worked with artists to reconstruct the face of a woman who ...

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci's Lady With an Ermine (1489) depicts Cecilia Gallerani, a mistress of the Duke of Milan. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Fragrances were also believed to ward off disease.

The project was initiated in 2021, after Sawoszczuk was asked by the National Museum in Kraków to assess the air quality inside the glass casing that housed 'Lady with an Ermine'.

The crisp musk of an old book. The sweet sting of a lover's perfume on a coat collar. Smells accentuate our experiences and bond us to objects, their imagined memories seeped into our subconscious.

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 claws ...

Art History Leonardo’s ‘Lady With an Ermine’ Is a Riddle of Love and Power—Here Are 3 of Its Secrets. We took a closer look at this enigmatic portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, the mistress of ...