Super interesting article.<p>> Also, I refuse to put up one of those obnoxious “SIGN UP NOW!” pop-ups on the site, because I find them ridiculously annoying<p>I can't express enough gratitude for this, though.
When I was a kid, the Leonardo painting was called "Lady with a Weasel". Now they claim it is "Lady with an Ermine". Most probably, though, it is "Lady with a Polecat-Ferret Hybrid".
Once you see it you can't unsee it, apparently.<p>One wonders what other bizarre cultural subtexts we're missing in other historical art periods.
These were probably the visual memes of their age and seem to have survived primarily because their patrons were able to pay for them to be immortalized.