Mona Lisa Revealed
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Mona Lisa Revealed
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Author : Giuseppe Pallanti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Mona Lisa Revealed written by Giuseppe Pallanti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
A real-life Da Vinci mystery is solved at last in this examination of the real identity of "Mona Lisa." 16 full-color illustrations.
The Secrets Of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Author : Graeme Cameron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Secrets Of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Graeme Cameron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Painting categories.
Mona Lisa
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Author : Dianne Hales
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014
Mona Lisa written by Dianne Hales and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.
"A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Dianne Hales has followed facts wherever she could find them -- from the Florence State Archives, to the squalid street where she was born, to the ruins of the convent where she died. Lisa Gherardini was a quintessential woman of her times, caught in a whirl of political upheavals, family dramas, and public scandals. Descended from ancient nobles, she gave birth to six children and died at age sixty-three. Her life spanned the most tumultuous chapters in the history of Florence, decades of war, rebellion, invasion, siege, and conquest--and of the greatest artistic outpouring the world has ever seen. Her story creates an extraordinary tapestry of Renaissance Florence, inhabited by larger-than-legend figures such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered takes readers beyond the frame of Leonardo's masterpiece and introduces them to a fully dimensional human being"--
The Lady Speaks
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Author : W.N. Varvel
language : en
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
Release Date : 2014-02-13
The Lady Speaks written by W.N. Varvel and has been published by BrownBooks.ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with Art categories.
This thoroughly original work of art history presents a provocative theory about Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa, and Theological Gender Equality. The famous Mona Lisa smile has mystified viewers and intrigued historians for centuries. Completed in 1515, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterwork has hidden the lady’s secret well. Now, after years of research and analysis, W. N. Varvel has decoded the hidden meanings of Mona Lisa. In The Lady Speaks, Varnel reveals the vital message her smile conveys: a secret too dangerous for the artist to acknowledge during his life but one which he hoped future generations would understand and embrace. The coming of the “New Jerusalem” depends on the world’s recognizing what lies behind the Mona Lisa smile. Detailing how the artist wove a calculated fabric of clues, symbols, and images, Varvel establishes not only da Vinci’s, but also Michelangelo’s, belief in Theological Gender Equality. In a thrilling achievement of art history detective work, Varvel tracks clues, links previously unnoticed connections, recreates scenarios, identifies villains and heroes, and presents a persuasive case for what the lady must be thinking.
Mona Lisa Unveiled
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Author : Alessandro Vezzosi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Mona Lisa Unveiled written by Alessandro Vezzosi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Mona Lisa
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Author : Martin Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-26
Mona Lisa written by Martin Kemp and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-26 with History categories.
Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual beginning we see how the painting metamorphosed into a 'universal picture' that became the prime vehicle for Leonardo's prodigious knowledge of the human and natural worlds. We learn about the new money of the ambitious merchant who married into the old gentry of Lisa's family. We discover Lisa's life as a wife and mother, her association with sexual scandals, and her later life in a convent. We meet, for the first time, previously undiscovered members of Leonardo's immediate family and discover new information about his early life. The tiny hill town of Vinci is placed before us, with its widespread poverty. We find out about the career and possessions of his father, a notable lawyer in Florence. The meaning of the portrait that resulted from these human circumstances is vividly illuminated though Renaissance love poetry and verses specifically dedicated to Leonardo. We come to understand how Leonardo's sciences of optics, psychology, anatomy and geology are embraced in his poetic science of art. Recent scientific examinations of the painting disclose how it evolved to assume its present appearance in Leonardo's experimental hands. Above all, we cut through the suppositions and the myths to show that the portrait is a product of real people in a real place at a real time. This is the book that brings back a sense of reality into the creation of the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. And the actual Mona Lisa, it turns out, is even more astonishing and transcendent than the Mona Lisa of legend.
Mona Lisa
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Author : Serge Bramly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Mona Lisa written by Serge Bramly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art, Renaissance categories.
The woman in Leonardo da Vinci's work gazes out from the canvas with a quiet serenity. But what lies behind the famous smile? Shrouded in mystery, the Mona Lisa has attracted more speculation and questioning than any other work of art ever created. This work provides an aide memoire of the world's most famous painting. The full-page colour plates portray the Mona Lisa in close-up photographs, while Serge Bramly, the author, explores its shadowy history and the fascination the painting has engendered.
Lumi Re On The Mona Lisa Leonardo Da Vinci
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Author : Pascal Cotte
language : en
Publisher: Lumiere
Release Date : 2016
Lumi Re On The Mona Lisa Leonardo Da Vinci written by Pascal Cotte and has been published by Lumiere this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art, Italian categories.
- Discover the true portrait of Lisa Gherardini- Major BBC documentary to be broadcast in December 2015Groundbreaking and important new discoveries concerning the Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa is one of mankind's great mysteries. With over 9.7 million admirers per year, it is the most legendary painting of all time. No other work has provoked such a desire to know its secrets. Now, after a decade of research, Pascal Cotte has pioneered an extraordinary scientific imagery technique (L.A.M.), that takes us into the heart of the paint-layers of the world's most famous picture and reveals secrets that have remained hidden for 500 years. This book takes us on a remarkable journey that reveals stage by stage, layer by layer, his remarkable findings. It demonstrates definitively, for the first time, answers to the mysteries that have eluded us for centuries. Who was the lady in the picture? Did Leonardo paint another version? What really lies behind that iconic face? And how did Leonardo achieve that beguiling and seductive smile? There are over 150 brand new discoveries about the painting. A landmark event in the world of art, this book shatters many myths and alters our vision of Leonardo's masterpiece forever. Pascal Cotte's findings are the subject of a major BBC documentary and will be announced to the world in December.
Solving Mona Lisa
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Author : Piccirillo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-09
Solving Mona Lisa written by Piccirillo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-09 with categories.
Paperback with gray illustrations. Memoir of an artist who solves the mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" painting, and reveals his discoveries of optical illusions that have been hiding in centuries-old art.
The Three Mona Lisas
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Author : Rab Hatfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Three Mona Lisas written by Rab Hatfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.
In this study Rab Hatfield provides a thorough, no-nonsense analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or La Gioconda. The book begins with a consideration of the generally known sources and documents and a careful look at the painting as we know it now. There follow discussions of rarely examined laboratory photographs and of a recently discovered annotation by Ser Agostino Vespucci in a book he owned of letters by Cicero, from which we learn that Leonardo left a portrait of "Lisa del Giocondo" unfinished no later than October 1503. The book concludes with a hitherto unknown letter written in 1515 by Filippo Strozzi to Lorenzo de' Medici, Captain General of the Florentine Armies and soon to become Duke of Urbino, describing some supposed advances these two men made to Mon(n)a Lisa. The laboratory photographs and newly discovered sources make it clear that the Mona Lisa has probably been reworked twice, that it in fact depicts Mon(n)a Lisa del Giocondo, and that it would be better if we spoke of it as La Gioconda rather than the Mona Lisa. Contents: Part One: Setting the Stage - I. Vasari and Some Other Well Known Sources and Documents. II. The Mona Lisa As We See It Now. Part Two: The Three Mona Lisas. III. The Changes: The x-ray photographs and the first Mona Lisa. IV. The Annotation of Ser Agostino Vespucci. V. Filippo Strozzi's letter.