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Leonardo da Vinci is one of my favorites artists ever!
So I have this “project” to make a fanart of his muses.
I started with the most famous Lisa Gherardini, Cecilia Gallerani, Cecilia Gallerani and Lucrezia Crivelli, but I still will make Ginevra di Benci, Isabella d'Este and Bianca Maria Sforza ;)
Lisa Gherardini - The Monalisa!
The Mona Lisa (Monna Lisa or La Gioconda) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world."
c. 1503
Cecilia Gallerani - The Girl with an Ermine
Cecilia Gallerani was the favourite and most celebrated of the many mistresses of Ludovico Sforza, known as Lodovico il Moro, Duke of Milan. She is best known as the subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Lady with an Ermine (circa 1489). While posing for the painting, she invited Leonardo, who at the time was working as court artist for Sforza, to meetings at which Milanese intellectuals discussed philosophy and other subjects. Cecilia herself presided over these discussions.
c. 1489
Lucrezia Crivelli - La Belle Ferronnière
Lucrezia Crivelli, La Belle Ferronnière from Da Vinci’s painting. She was a lady-in-waiting to Ludovico Sforza’s wife, Beatrice d'Este. During this time, she also became the mistress of Sforza. In 1497, she gave birth to his son, Giovanni Paolo. Sforza’s affair with Crivelli caused much distress to his wife, who was considered accomplished and cultured. Upon learning of the affair, d'Este tried without success to have Crivelli banished from court.
Lisa Gherardini have all her dreams crushed with the military coup of Florence and the expulsion of Medici Family. Without Giuliano, with her father be seing as a Medici ally, Lisa is arrested and to save her family she needs to marry with a man she doesn’t love.
Between in a net of conspiracy, with Florence taked by the Savonarola’s followers, she had her portraid painting in secret meetings with Leonardo da Vinci.
This is her dress to the wedding with Francesco del Giocondo, described in the book with spanish fashion sleeves drawned my the groom, as the traditions demands.
Lisa is a young and passionate girl longing for a life full of art and beauty, that being the daughter of a devotee of Savonarola, does not see how her life can change unless through marriage.
And for that, she is about to meet Lorenzo de Medici, the main matchmaker of the noble classes of Florence.
Lisa learns about the murder of Giuliano de’ Medici, the brother of Lorenzo de’ Medici in the Pazzi conspiracy. Guiliano’s murder casts a shadow, especially as one of the killers has not been found.
She later falls in love with Giuliano’s namesake, Lorenzo’s son Giuliano in the aftermath of Girolamo Savonarola’s uprising in the late 15th century.
Little does she know that is about to enter a world of conspiracy, and that will be immortalized by a great artist.