Leonardo Da Vinci, Lady With An Ermine

Analysis of the artwork: Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine In the painting of the lady, who is Ludovico Sforza, the mistress of an Italian duke, the artist shows her beauty and status, attracting to viewers to appreciate. Also, the interaction and the cooperation of the visual properties shows lady’s emotion and a symbol of the animal to try to tell a story to viewer. For colors in the painting, the artist utilizes a variety of colors to make the lady look life-like, kind-hearted and powerful, and viewers tend to be attracted by this lady because the use of colors. The black color of the background put the spotlight on the main subject which consists of high-saturated colors like the red and the blue with high chroma as well as high value colors like the skin tone of the sitter and the white color of the ermine. Moreover, how the light affects the colors makes the lady look powerful and graceful. The light from the right side of the painting makes the colors gradient from low to high, forming the space. The shadow that the light creates makes the lady look vigorous and formidable. For instance, owing to the light, the ermine as well as the face, the right hand, and the left …show more content…
The shapes of the right hands and the ermine are tangled and dynamic, compared to the face composed of horizontal lines. Besides the twisted shapes, the size of the right hand is apparently magnified. The large proportion of the right hand and ermine adds visual weight to the composition. The particular large proportion of her right hand in diagonal lines implies her potential nervousness and desire to control the ermine. The ermine could be symbolic of the Italian duke. Therefore, it would implies the lady belongs to the duke as well as the lady feels worried about the relationship with duke in the