Da Vinci’s tiger

Though rich in beauty, wit, and talent, Ginevra de’ Benci is trapped in an arranged marriage and expected to limit her creativity to household duties. When charismatic Venetian ambassador Bernardo Bembo chooses the teenage poetess as his Platonic muse, he commissions Ginevra’s portrait by a young Leonardo da Vinci. Posing for the brilliant painter helps Ginevra find her own artistic voice and inspires captivating intimacy between a them. But the pair is soon caught up in a deadly battle between the powerful Medici family and its rivals.

Da Vinci’s Tiger is stunning tale of a real-life Renaissance a woman, captured forever in Leonardo da Vinci’s first portrait-a painting that broke convention and established the master as a force of artistic honesty.