1979 Pulitzer dies, and the painting is inherited by his partner, Elizabeth Meyer. Since 1982 Internationally acclaimed 'Quid' almanac of France acknowledges the existence of two versions of 'Mona Lisa' by Leonardo da Vinci; ...
Provides the script for the British film about an ex-convict who falls in love with the expensive prostitute for whom he works as a driver
The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.
Judd Flogdell, Martin Kemp's personal assistant has played many crucial roles, without which this book would have struggled to see the light of day, culminating in her heroic provision of the very complex index. Martin Kemp's debts over ...
¿Por qué «La Gioconda», el retrato de Mona Lisa, es la pintura más famosa del mundo? ¿Cómo explicar la fascinación que produce en los miles de visitantes que se arremolinan cada día en el Louvre en torno a la instalación especial ...
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.
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.
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...
Naturally, Leonardo da Vinci's workshop is on the shopping list; and during their visit to his house, the young nobleman de Bougainville chances upon the not-quite-finished Mona Lisa.
The book rests on the premise that the woman in the painting "Mona Lisa" is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo.
... Florence, cited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber in Ritorno alla Politica. This volume, along with Gene Brucker's Florence: The Golden Age, 1138–1737 and Carol Lansing's The Florentine Magnates, provided details of Florence in the magnate ...