Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting

by Martin Kemp and Giuseppe Pallanti

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198749902
• ISBN13: 9780198749905
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"