Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’ has arrived to Warsaw from Budapest, where it was one of the highlights of a major exhibition ‘From Boticelli to Titian’.

In Warsaw’s Royal Castle, it will be shown at an exhibition of the treasures from the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, which opens on Tuesday.

Painted over five centuries ago, Lady with an Ermine is described as the world’s first truly modern portrait.  There are no more than thirteen pictures by Leonardo in existence and Lady with an Ermine is one of the artist’s four female portraits,

The other crowd-pulling attraction at the Warsaw exhibition, which will remain open until the end of September,  will be Rembrandt’s ‘Landscape with the Good Samaritan’.  (mk)