I Mona Lisa

Author	: Jeanne Kalogridis
Publisher	: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date	: 2007-04-01
ISBN 10	: 9781429906029
Pages	: 544 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (299 users)

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Download or read book I Mona Lisa written by Jeanne Kalogridis and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born..." Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de' Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa. More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and books as easily as he sends men to their deaths. Lisa, now grown into an alluring woman, captures the heart of Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Guiliano, her love, meets a tragic end, Lisa must gather all her courage and cunning to untangle a sinister web of illicit love, treachery, and dangerous secrets that threatens her life. Set against the drama of 15th Century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself.

I Mona Lisa

Author	: Natasha Solomons
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2022-02-10
ISBN 10	: 9781529151350
Pages	: 271 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (291 users)

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Download or read book I Mona Lisa written by Natasha Solomons and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A beautifully written, literary tour-de-force' John Ironmonger, author of Not Forgetting the Whale 'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel' Jillian Cantor The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years. She has watched alone in silence as millions of people have admired her behind the glass. Now, she is finally ready to tell her own story. Over five centuries, from da Vinci's bustling Florentine studio to the opulent French court, Mona will be desired, stolen, heartbroken, curious, furious, and above all, she will be heard. 'Solomons' prose is lyrical and her detail immense. No longer can I look at the Mona Lisa without hearing her. But more, now I know her' PRESS ASSOCIATION

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Author	: Everest Media,
Publisher	: Everest Media LLC
Release Date	: 2022-08-29T22:59:00Z
ISBN 10	: 9798350018028
Pages	: 43 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Summary of Natasha Solomons s I Mona Lisa written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-29T22:59:00Z with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Leonardo was a beautiful man at 51. He wore a short, rose-colored tunic and a cloak of deepest green velvet, which was given to him by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. He visited the barber regularly and his cheeks were smooth. #2 Leonardo’s studio is always cool, but Lisa constantly needs to have a fire lit. She is always searching for something, but she doesn’t like me. Leonardo is more diplomatic, and he tries to explain to her that a painting is visual poetry. #3 I am not like the other artists who have come before me, who glance demurely at the floor or their clasped hands. I am a revolutionary, and I will change the world, but only for those who wish to see. #4 When Leonardo was drawing my hands, he was constantly making adjustments to the angles of my fingers. He was also drawing and redrawing Niccolò Machiavelli’s hands.

The Lost Mona Lisa

Author	: R A Scotti
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2009-11-10
ISBN 10	: 9781409081777
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book The Lost Mona Lisa written by R A Scotti and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mona Lisa Leonardo s Earlier Version

Author	: Mona Lisa Foundation
Publisher	: The Mona Lisa Foundation
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9783033031449
Pages	: 319 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa Leonardo s Earlier Version written by Mona Lisa Foundation and published by The Mona Lisa Foundation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Mona Lisa s Cherry Pie

Author	: Bernadine Seminack
Publisher	: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date	: 2013-09-20
ISBN 10	: 9781483695631
Pages	: 24 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (836 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa s Cherry Pie written by Bernadine Seminack and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Tuscan region of Italy, this vibrantly-illustrated children's book is a heart-warming tale about a mother and daughter's adventure in a distant land. Guaranteed to entertain and excite the young reader, it will educate and captivate them as they journey along with the characters on their voyage of discovery. In their quest to find the object of their desire, it is imperative they muster all their strength in facing their odds with great determination and perseverance. Throughout the adventure, the author wishes to convey important values to her young reader as not to give up hope and surrender for it takes real character to keep plugging on in pursuit of one's dreams in the face of adversity. The book also presents the benefits of camaraderie, compassion and compromise. Aside from the story, "Mona Lisa's Cherry Pie," it's the authors expectation to inspire her readers to explore this geographic region and the cultural aspects of the main character's namesake, Mona Lisa. To embrace the excitement of following one's passion and the courage to embrace the challenges along the way is what the author aspires to accomplish.

Mona Lisa

Author	: Dianne Hales
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2015-08-18
ISBN 10	: 9781451658972
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (516 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Dianne Hales and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Haleshas 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: ALife Discovered takes readers beyond the frame of Leonardo's masterpiece and introduces them to a fully dimensional human being"--

Mona Lisa

Author	: Martin Kemp
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2017
ISBN 10	: 9780198749905
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (987 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Martin Kemp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Jacket cover page 4.

The Annotated Mona Lisa

Author	: Carol Strickland
Publisher	: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date	: 2007-10
ISBN 10	: 0740768727
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (687 users)

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Download or read book The Annotated Mona Lisa written by Carol Strickland and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mona Lisa s Escort

Author	: Herman Lebovics
Publisher	: Cornell University Press
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: 080143565X
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (356 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa s Escort written by Herman Lebovics and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling in a First-Class Cabin on the luxury liner France early in 1963, the Western world's most famous painting sailed across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to the United States. The goodwill generated by the loan eased U.S.-French relations, which had soured over tensions stemming from the cold war. The mastermind behind the Mona Lisa's triumphant tour was France's newly appointed minister of cultural affairs, Andre Malraux. In this book, Herman Lebovics recounts how Malraux's brilliant foray into the realm of diplomacy was but one example of his efforts to employ France's cultural heritage in the service of a renewed national grandeur.

Mona Lisa

Author	: Dianne Hales
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2014-08-05
ISBN 10	: 9781451658965
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (516 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Dianne Hales and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blends biography, history and memoir to compile the story of da Vinci's famous masterpiece subject, detailing the political upheavals, family dramas and public scandals of Renaissance Florence that shaped her life and her relationships with kings and artists.

Mona Lisa and her mysteries

Author	: Beatriz M. Mikusinski Zawislak
Publisher	: Digitaliza Conteudo
Release Date	: 2022-08-25
ISBN 10	: 9786558631293
Pages	: 121 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (586 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa and her mysteries written by Beatriz M. Mikusinski Zawislak and published by Digitaliza Conteudo. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, based on a pedagogical approach, in order to present information accessibly, even for those who do not have a background in History or History of Art. On the other hand, the book brings well-documented information, based on testimonials of some of the most renowned researchers who have studied the subject. Before addressing the subject of the book, the author presents the stories of the first three portraits painted by Leonardo Da Vinci: the portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci; the portrait known as The lady with an Ermine and the portrait of La Belle Ferronnière, aiming to use these three paintings to observe Leonardo’s evolving creative process in portrait painting (non-religious paintings), before painting his iconic Mona Lisa, which is thoroughly analyzed in many aspects.

Mona Lisa

Author	: Martin Kemp
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2017-05-26
ISBN 10	: 9780191066979
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Martin Kemp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 s Pajamas

Author	: A. Craig Copetas
Publisher	: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: 1402757646
Pages	: 276 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (576 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa s Pajamas written by A. Craig Copetas and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-class armchair travel at its very best! Mona Lisa’s Pajamas gives readers a round-trip ticket for a journey around the world, carrying them to distant destinations most of us will never visit. Originally written for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, A. Craig Copetas’s delightfully surprising columns are now collected in book form for the first time. Covering exotic locales, improbable business ventures, artisan winemakers, and memorably oddball characters, Copetas’s vivid writing brings his subjects alive with richly-textured descriptions only a truly gifted observer can capture. From Sparta’s souvenir sword-makers swamped with demand thanks to the hit movie 300, to a Russian golf pro whose favorite clubs were built from the scrapped metal of a Soviet nuclear missile, Copetas writes of unorthodox business pursuits and faraway locations with an infectious joie de vivre and an unerring eye for what makes enjoyable reading. Unforgettable visits for the armchair traveler: -Israel's Sacred Golf Course: where bomb craters have become bunkers -How to Succeed in Business and Avoid Serious Head Trauma: near Stockholm, a former British Special Air Services commando teaches executives how to survive a kidnapping -An Honorable and Ancient Solution to Boardroom Disputes: the 21st-century duel -Propulsion Is a Real Plus with Clubs Made in a Missile Factory: A Russian treasures his set of golf clubs--made from an old Soviet missile once aimed at the US -Da Vinci Code Fans Dig Up the Dead: Dan Brown’s devotees swarm a town central to the blockbuster’s story

Mona Lisa Eclipsing

Author	: Sunny
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2011-04-05
ISBN 10	: 9781101479025
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (14 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa Eclipsing written by Sunny and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling author returns with a new passionate, erotically charged paranormal novel. Roberto, a jaguar-shifter of mixed Monère heritage, arrives in Cozumel to kill a rival. But he finds a more valuable prize in Mona Lisa, a Monère who's lost her memory and can be manipulated into believing anything-no matter how dark or dangerous.

All crazy about the Mona Lisa

Author	: Olga Maria Stefania Cucaro
Publisher	: Olga Maria stefania Cucaro
Release Date	: 2020-05-30
ISBN 10	: 9788835838562
Pages	: 34 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (358 users)

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Download or read book All crazy about the Mona Lisa written by Olga Maria Stefania Cucaro and published by Olga Maria stefania Cucaro. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All crazy about the Mona Lisa was inspired by a myriad of images on the web on the Mona Lisa. It is interesting to understand this passion that the whole world has towards Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa was taken up by past and contemporary artists, in design and in various advertising campaigns. Some large companies have based their visual communication on the image of the Mona Lisa and others have transformed their products by taking up the iconography of the Mona Lisa. The aim of this study is to describe the use of the Mona Lisa's image in art and advertising and at the same time to understand the reasons behind this communicative choice.

Mona Lisa Craving

Author	: Sunny
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2008-01-02
ISBN 10	: 9781101207635
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (12 users)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa Craving written by Sunny and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante, the warrior son of a healer, was cursed by a high priestess to endure a never-ending cycle of life and death. Someone shares one of his past lives. Back then, she was his victim. Today, she is his savior. Her name is Mona Lisa.