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Gallerana, Cecilia (1473 - 1536)

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Short name Gallerana, Cecilia
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First name Cecilia
Birth name Gallerana
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Date of birth 1473
Date of death 1536
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For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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*On the emancipation of women Vosmaer, Carel 1870 -

Shell, Janice & Sironi, Grazioso (1992), "Cecilia Gallerani: Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine", Artibus et Historiae 13 (25): 47–66.

She kept a salon.
She was the favourite and most celebrated of the many mistresses of Ludovico Sforza, known as Lodovico il Moro, Duke of Milan.