The latest publication concerning provenance of the portrait of La Bella Principessa attributed to Leonardo da Vinci is available on the website of The Leonardo da Vinci Society (Birkbeck College, London): http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/ LA BELLA PRINCIPESSA AND THE WARSAW SFORZIAD. CIRCUMSTANCES OF REBINDING AND EXCISION OF THE PORTRAIT Katarzyna (Kasia) Woźniak This paper provides a detailed assessment of the circumstances of rebinding of the Warsaw copy of La Sforziada, and, according to the latest publication of Prof. Martin Kemp, parallel excision of the portrait of La Bella Principessa. Extensive study of the history of the Zamoyski book collection as well as scrupulous analysis of alterations to the original volume have helped specify the time frame to the first years of the 19th century. Consequently, the identification of the individuals who were responsible for this restoration was possible. On a wider historical panorama this text presents the rebinding of La Sforziada as part of the cultural and economical reform of the Entailed Estate of Zamosc, taken over by Count Stanislaw Kostka Zamoyski in 1800. Furthermore, this study examines his close relationship to Princes Adam and Izabela Czartoryski, owners of Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine. Additionally, this paper provides, for the first time, photograph of the portraits detached and lost frame. For further details please contact: [email protected]
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