What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait by Collinsworth, Eden
What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait by Collinsworth, Eden

What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait

The remarkable true story behind one of history's most enigmatic portraits--a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and...
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Author: Eden Collinsworth
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What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait by Collinsworth, Eden

What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait

$318.34
What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait by Collinsworth, Eden

What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait

$318.34
Author: Eden Collinsworth
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The remarkable true story behind one of history's most enigmatic portraits--a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palazzos of Europe (Amanda Foreman, New York Times best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)

Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful that Leonardo's genius would not only capture Cecilia's beguiling beauty but also reflect the grandeur of his title. But when the portrait was finished, Leonardo's brush strokes had conveyed something deeper by revealing the essence of Cecilia's soul. Even today, The Woman with an Ermine manages to astonish.

Despite the work's importance in its own time, no records of it have been found for the two hundred and fifty years that followed Gallerani's death. Readers of The Hare with the Amber Eyes will marvel at Eden Collinsworth's dexterous story of illuminates the eventual history of this unique masterpiece, as it journeyed from one owner to the next-from the portrait's next recorded owner, a Polish noblewoman, who counted Benjamin Franklin as an admirer, to its exile in Paris during the Polish Soviet War, to its return to WWII-era Poland where--in advance of Germany's invasion--it remained hidden behind a bricked-up wall by a housekeeper who defied Hitler's edict that it be confiscated as one of the Reich's treasures. Fans of Anne-Marie O'Connor's The Lady in Gold will treasure the story of this criss-crossing journey and the enigmatic woman at its heart.

What the Ermine Saw is a fact-based story that cheats fiction and a reminder that genius, power, and beauty always have a price.


Author: Eden Collinsworth
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 05/24/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.28w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780385546119


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/07/2022
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
Library Journal 04/01/2022 pg. 83

About the Author
EDEN COLLINSWORTH is a former media executive and business consultant. The author of three previous books, her most recent, Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business, was published in 2017. She lives in London.

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