List of Famous people with last name Gallerani

Cecilia Gallerani

First Name Cecilia
Last Name Gallerani
Born on January 1, 1473
Died on January 1, 1536 (aged 63)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Cecilia Gallerani, born in Siena, Italy, 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. 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.

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