Painting Mona Lisa
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Mona Lisa
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Author : Donald Sassoon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Mona Lisa written by Donald Sassoon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
What has made the Mona Lisa the most famous picture in the world? Why is it that, of all the 6,000 paintings in the Louvre, it is the only one to be exhibited in a special box, set in concrete and protected by two sheets of bulletproof glass? Why do thousands of visitors throng to see it every day, ignoring the masterpieces which surround it?
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.
Leonardo And The Mona Lisa Story
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Author : Donald Sassoon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2006
Leonardo And The Mona Lisa Story written by Donald Sassoon and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci first painted La Gioconda, or the Mona Lisa, her mysterious smile retains its celebrity status. Da Vinci today is in the public eye like no other artist, yet few of us know the compelling story of this priceless world treasure: how she was created; her impact on other artists; the story of her theft; and how, through a mix of luck, history, and her own innate beauty, she came to be regarded as the world's greatest painting. In this engaging story, told largely in pictures and presented in a unique format, acclaimed historian and Mona Lisa scholar Donald Sassoon offers us an intimate look at the painting's history and the genius who gave the Mona Lisa lasting life. From photographs of Florence to paintings by Leonardo's Florentine contemporaries, parodies of the Mona Lisa by Duchamp and Warhol, commercial appropriations and cartoons, Leonardo and the Mona Lisa Story unlocks the history behind the painting
Painting Mona Lisa
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Author : Jeanne Kalogridis
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-06-17
Painting Mona Lisa written by Jeanne Kalogridis and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with Fiction categories.
Painting Mona Lisa explores mysteries surrounding da Vinci's famous portrait – why did Leonardo keep the Mona Lisa with him until his death?
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 :
language : en
Publisher: The Mona Lisa Foundation
Release Date : 2012
Mona Lisa written by and has been published by The Mona Lisa Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
"Learn about the incredible saga of Leonardos Earlier Mona Lisa with this beautifully detailed, 240 page book that includes the historical background, scientific testing, forensic expertise and cutting-edge research in art authentication. It took 500 years to make the paintings story public when you read the book, you will understand why."-- Publisher's description.
Oil Painting The Mona Lisa In Sfumato A Portrait Painting Challenge In 48 Steps
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Author : Rachel Shirley
language : en
Publisher: Rachel Shirley
Release Date : 2013-09-01
Oil Painting The Mona Lisa In Sfumato A Portrait Painting Challenge In 48 Steps written by Rachel Shirley and has been published by Rachel Shirley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-01 with Art categories.
An oil painting demonstration on portrait painting with sfumato like the old masters. This in depth painting demonstration explores a tailored approach in achieving sfumato effects when painting Leonardo da Vinci’s the Mona Lisa in oils. Taken from my other book, Skin Tones in Oil: 10 Step by Step Guides from Old Masters, this painting project has proved to be sufficiently lengthy to warrant a book in its own right. The chief section of this book comprises step by step images with accompanying text that gives full instructions on how the Mona Lisa was completed via 5 stages. Find also extra features, such as managing tonal balances, attaining soft shadowy effects, working in glazes, dry brushing, troubleshooting and making the most of simple art materials. Learn how such a momentous project can be broken down into manageable pieces. Painting the Mona Lisa with sfumato could prove an invaluable experience for any portraitist. Note: this book does not explain the painting processes of the Renaissance period such as grinding pigments or the old masters’ method of underpainting. Such practices may exclude artists who do not have the room or the resources to prepare in such a way. This book’s aim is to make painting the Mona Lisa more inclusive. This means getting on with the painting with minimal fuss. Contemporary art materials and modified art techniques have therefore been used. However, this book offers a way of achieving great sfumato effects in the style of Leonardo. Preparatory sections, a troubleshooting guide and glossary are included. Book’s dimensions: 10x8in and 48 pages.
The Annotated Mona Lisa
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Author : Carol Strickland
language : en
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2007-10
The Annotated Mona Lisa written by Carol Strickland and has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Art categories.
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.
The Lost Mona Lisa
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Author : R A Scotti
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-11-10
The Lost Mona Lisa written by R A Scotti and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-10 with History categories.
In the late afternoon of Sunday, 20 August 1911, three men strolled into the Louvre museum in Paris. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa, had vanished. The theft of the Mona Lisa was the greatest crime ever to hit the art world. France closed her borders, a massive man-hunt was launched, even Picasso was a suspect - but all to no avail, the Mona Lisa had gone...until two years later when a letter arrived in Florence signed 'Leonardo'; the painting was for sale. The Lost Mona Lisa uncovers the truth behind the 'crime of the century'. It is a story to rival the best detective fiction - a story of audacious thieves, art forgers, shadowy conmen, millionaire collectors, a global manhunt, and the most beautiful and enigmatic woman in the world, Mona Lisa Gioconda.
Vanished Smile
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Author : R.A. Scotti
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-04-07
Vanished Smile written by R.A. Scotti and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-07 with Art categories.
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, tried to trace the thieves, a burgeoning international media hyped news of the heist. No story captured the imagination of the world quite like this one. Thousands flocked to the Louvre to see the empty space where the painting had hung. They mourned as if Mona Lisa were a lost loved one, left flowers and notes, and set new attendance records. For more than two years, Mona Lisa’s absence haunted the art world, provoking the question: Was she lost forever? A century later, questions still linger. Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed. R. A. Scotti’s riveting, ingeniously realized account is itself a masterly portrait of a world in transition. Combining her skills as a historian and a novelist, Scotti turns the tantalizing clues into a story of the painting’s transformation into the most familiar and lasting icon of all time.