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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Kemp, Martin.     Subjects     Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Mona Lisa.     Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Family.     Del Giocondo, Lisa, 1479-     Del Giocondo, Francesco, 1465-1538.     Artists -- Italy -- Biography.     Artists' models -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.     Painting, Renaissance -- Italy.     Portraits, Renaissance.     Italy -- Social life and customs -- To 1500.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kemp, Martin.       by title:      Mona Lisa : the peop...       by call number:      759.5 L581kp     Search the Web     Kemp, Martin.     Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Mona Lisa.     Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Family.     Del Giocondo, Lisa, 1479-     Del Giocondo, Francesco, 1465-1538.     Artists -- Italy -- Biography.     Artists' models -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.     Painting, Renaissance -- Italy.     Portraits, Renaissance.     Italy -- Social life and customs -- To 1500.       MARC Display

Mona Lisa : the people and the painting / by Martin Kemp & Giuseppe Pallanti. by Kemp, Martin. Oxford University Press, 2017. Call #: 759.5 L581kp Subjects Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Mona Lisa.   Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Family.   Del Giocondo, Lisa, 1479-   Del Giocondo, Francesco, 1465-1538.   Artists -- Italy -- Biography.   Artists' models -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.   Painting, Renaissance -- Italy.   Portraits, Renaissance.   Italy -- Social life and customs -- To 1500. ISBN:  9780198749905 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xiii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Notes:  "The true story of the Mona Lisa"--Back cover. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "Previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. How the painting metamorphosed into a "universal picture". We learn about 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 the illegitimate Leonardo's real mother and find out where he was born. 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. We cut though the suppositions and the myths to show that the portrait is a product of real people in a real place at a real time. The actual Mona Lisa, it turns out, is even more astonishing and transcendent than the Mona Lisa of legend. Martin Kemp is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College, Oxford University. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci: The marvellous works of nature and man. Giuseppe Pallanti lives and works in Florence, where he is an Economics teacher. He has a passion for archival research and has been researching the history of the Del Giocondo and da Vinci families for many years"--Provided by publisher. Other authors:  Pallanti, Giuseppe. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 759.5 L581kp Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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