Mona Lisa : a life discovered /

Mona Lisa : a life discovered /

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Author / Creator:	Hales, Dianne, 1950-
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Description:	xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Leonardo, -- da Vinci, -- 1452-1519. -- Mona Lisa. Del Giocondo, Lisa, -- 1479- Del Giocondo, Lisa, -- 1479- Mona Lisa (Leonardo, da Vinci) Artists' models -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. Artists' models. Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737. Italy -- Florence. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10073777

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Other authors / contributors:	Pallanti, Giuseppe.
ISBN:	9781451658965 (hbk.) 1451658966 (hbk.) 9781451658989 (ebk.) 9781451658972 (trade paperback) 1451658974 (trade paperback)
Notes:	Based on research by Giuseppe Pallanti, author of La Vera Identità della Gioconda. Milan: Skira Editore, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.
Summary:	"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." --

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Call Number:	ND623.L5A7 2014
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