Mona Lisa the people and the painting
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.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
2017.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47063142*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER I: Old Gentry and New Money; Lisa's family; Francesco's family; CHAPTER II: Francesco and Lisa: Family and Finance; CHAPTER III: Francesco and Lisa: Patronage and Legacy; Francesco, the artists, and Vasari; After Francesco; CHAPTER IV: Coming Together: Ser Piero, the Merchant, and the Friars; Ser Piero in Florence; Santissima Annunziata; Ser Piero's heritage; Family houses in the borgo of Vinci; CHAPTER V: A Child from Vinci; Caterina's child; Local families.
- Caterina's intermentCHAPTER VI: Renaissance Records; Leonardo in 1503; The new 'Appelles'; A tourist attraction in 1517; The 'little demon'; Artist-authors: Vasari and Lomazzo; CHAPTER VII: The Rise to Fame; 'La Bella Jucunda': Cassiano, Buckingham, and Richardson; Two reproductions and two musings; Repatriated, briefly; CHAPTER VIII: Portrait to Poetry: The Dolce stil nuovo; The Paragone; Dante and Petrarch: loving eyes and sweet smiles; Courtly love: Lorenzo il Magnifico; CHAPTER IX: Painter and Poets; Poets look at Leonardo; Painted poetry; CHAPTER X: The Universal Picture.
