Architecture and Memory

The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Robert Kirkbride

 

Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (ca. 1490), in which the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza holds an ermine. Kemp has noted that galée is Greek for ermine and therefore a pun on both the subject's name and a declaration of her purity (Kemp, "Editorial notes for Circa 1492," 271).

Source: © Robert Kirkbride

Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (ca. 1490), in which the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza holds an ermine. Kemp has noted that galée is Greek for ermine and therefore a pun on both the subject's name and a declaration of her purity (Kemp,