![Leonardo da Vinci. Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani). 1489-1490. Czartoryski Museum, Kraków. [Source: Wikimedia Comons]](http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/leonardo_da-vinci_lady_with_ermine.jpg "leonardo_da-vinci_lady_with_ermine")
Leonardo da Vinci. Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani). 1489-1490. Czartoryski Museum, Kraków. [Source: Wikimedia Comons]
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“’By his art he makes her look as if she’s listening, and not talking.” So says an Italian sonnet of the time when Leonardo painted the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani. The poem by Bernardo Bellincioni is believed to be the earliest literary description of da Vinci’s art. Cecilia was the 17-year-old mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Leonardo’s Milanese patron.
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The legendary Kiki of Montparnasse posed for Man Ray’s 
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ST., help me: who (or what) is “hustéé”?