The Lady With The Ermine

Completion Date: 1496 Place of Creation: Milan, Italy Style: High Renaissance Technique: Oil Material: Panel Dimensions: 39.3 x 53.4 cm

leonardo_da_vinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination"