Additional exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine"
Released on April 21, 2020 (Tuesday)
The Otsuka Museum of Art has reproduced "Lady with an Ermine" by the great Leonardo da Vinci, one of Poland's precious cultural assets, on a full-scale ceramic panel.Among the pictures that only more than ten points of the Leonardo about many masterpieces including "Last Supper" "Monna Lisa" exist, this 11 points additionally in total meet.
"Lady with an Ermine" is the second of four portraits that Leonardo painted of female models, and was created during his time in the service of Marquis Ludovico Sforza (known as Il Moro) of Milan.
In 1489, chiechiria garrerani (those days around 15 years old) where the model became lorette of rudoviko. "It is rocky, and, in hakuten (stoat of the winter coat of fur) to hold in an arm, it is said with -" in Greek and is the game of rhyming of her family name, and ten is said with "purity and a symbol of the moderation".
I set this work beside "Monna Lisa" and display it. It is an idea only in this museum which a rare portrait of the Leonardo for women compares it and can appreciate.
1489-90 / Oil on walnut / 54.8 x 40.3 cm / Czartoryski Museum (branch of the National Museum in Krakow), Poland
Using Optisolis™ Lighting
Renaissance Exhibition Room 46
The lighting that illuminates the artworks is the ultra-high color rendering white LED "Optisolis™" provided by Nichia Corporation (Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture). Optisolis™ is a light source developed by taking full advantage of the blue LED and phosphor technology that Nichia Corporation has cultivated over many years, and is an extremely suitable light source for lighting art galleries and museums. By illuminating with Optisolis™, which can emit light with a color close to natural light, the colors of the paintings can be displayed faithfully. Please enjoy Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces down to the last detail.
Up to national possession in Poland
Czartoryski Museum ©Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie Photo: tomasz markowski
Czartoryski Museum in city Krakow in southern Poland is the country oldest art museum. It stores the superior work of modern times from the ancient times, and it is "a lady holding hakuten" that is assumed a fine example above all. In around 1800, the son of the marchioness of Isabella charutorisuka purchases it in Italy and displays it in Czartoryski Museum utilizing the building which was an armory. It was plundered of by Nazi though it was carried to Germany at the time of 2 degrees World War and got out of trouble, and after that there was thorny history to pass through each place for several years. From 2016 of the Polish nation became owned, and returned to original possession building.
Leonardo da Vinci
"The Last Supper" (left) before restoration (right) after restoration
He was born in Italy in 1452. He was apprenticed to the Verrocchio of the famous painter, sculptor of Florence early in his 10s and acquire the basics of overall art by experience. He was recognized as a painter before long and become independent. He continued making an effort in a sculpture, a building, performing arts, astronomy, the various fields including the mathematics at the same time to produce a picture and show talent. He was also called "all-around person", and is counted for renaissance three in the golden age by one of the great great masters. The influence that he gave the painter of the coming ages including the device of introduction and the sfumato of the linear perspective to be seen in "Last Supper" is immeasurable. D.1519.
