Secure Leonardo And The Mona Lisa Story: The History Of A Painting Told In Pictures Authored By Donald Sassoon Paperback

overview of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa by using other important art historical works, If come across at the library, pick up! We ve all seen that famous smile a thousand

times, It graces the face of La Gioconda, or the Mona Lisa, created by Leonardo da Vinci around, Five centuries later, her mysterious smile has reached celebrity status, Da Vinci himself is in the public eye like no other artist before him, Yet few of us know the compelling story of this priceless world treasurehow she was created her impact on other artists the story of her theft and how, through a mix of luck, history and her own innate beauty, she came to be regarded as the world s greatest painting.

In this engaging story told largely in pictures, and presented in a unique format acclaimed historian and Mona Lisa scholar Donald Sassoon offers us an intimate look at the painting s history and the genius who gave the Mona Lisa lasting life, revealed in more than four hundred paintings, photographs, and illustrations.
From photographs of Florence to paintings by Leonardo s Florentine contemporaries from canvases by nineteenthcentury masters that detail the Victorian enthusiasm for Leonardo to parodies of the Mona Lisa by Duchamp and Warhol from commercial appropriations to cartoons Leonardo and the Mona Lisa Story unlocks the history behind the painting and illustrates just how much she continues to influence our culture.

Loved the picture book aspect if this, and that it told the story with such a limited narrative, Something that has become such a darling of our media culture explained and explored, This book provides a primarily pictorial history of the life of Leonardo and the legend of the Mona Lisa, It begins with paintings of Leonardo's milieu northern Italy during the Renaissance as well as paintings, drawings, and diagrams made by Leonardo and his contemporaries continues with the story of the painting's growing fame and some of its greatest admirers, including such protean figures as Napoleon Bonaparte and Oscar Wilde covers the personalities and events surrounding the theft of the painting inin what undoubtedly was the greatest artwork heist in history and its eventual return to the Louvre and concludes with Mona's more contemporary as a focus of celebrity culture and popart ripoffs.
As time goes by, photographs gradually replace paintings and drawings in the Leonardo and the Mona Lisa Story's narrative, All in all, this book provides an interesting, though not very substantive, history of the world's most famous painting, This is a fun book, It is a short history on the Mona Lisa from the very beginning to, "Leonardo and the Mona Lisa Story" is a visual journey through the life of Mona Lisa, Donald Sassoon tells the story of the painting through words and pictures, What a great way to tell an art story pictures and words, Mostly images, some salient points, Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London, .