The Resource Mona Lisa : a life discovered, Dianne Hales
Mona Lisa : a life discovered, Dianne Hales
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The item Mona Lisa : a life discovered, Dianne Hales represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Arapahoe Library District.
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- 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." --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 317 pages
- Note
- Based on research by Giuseppe Pallanti, author of La Vera Identità della Gioconda. Milan: Skira Editore, 2006
- Isbn
- 9781451658965
- Label
- Mona Lisa : a life discovered
- Title
- Mona Lisa
- Title remainder
- a life discovered
- Statement of responsibility
- Dianne Hales
- Subject
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- trueLife stories -- People in history
- trueArt, Renaissance (Europe)
- trueMona Lisa (Painting)
- trueDel Giocondo, Lisa, 1479-
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- trueFlorence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737
- ART / History / Renaissance
- trueBiographies
- trueLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
- trueArtists' models
- trueHistory writing -- Europe | Italy
- Artists' models -- Italy | Florence -- Biography
- HISTORY / Renaissance
- Language
- eng
- 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." --
- 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 Haleshas 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. Lisa Gherardini was a quintessential woman of her times, caught in a whirl of political upheavals, family dramas, and public scandals. Descended from ancient nobles, she gave birth to six children and died at age sixty-three. Her life spanned the most tumultuous chapters in the history of Florence, decades of war, rebellion, invasion, siege, and conquest--and of the greatest artistic outpouring the world has ever seen. Her story creates an extraordinary tapestry of Renaissance Florence, inhabited by larger-than-legend figures such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered takes readers beyond the frame of Leonardo's masterpiece and introduces them to a fully dimensional human being
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10323984
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 759.5
- 920
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a life discovered
- Label
- Mona Lisa : a life discovered, Dianne Hales
- Note
- Based on research by Giuseppe Pallanti, author of La Vera Identità della Gioconda. Milan: Skira Editore, 2006
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 862348056
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451658965
- Lccn
- 2013042086
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)862348056
- Label
- Mona Lisa : a life discovered, Dianne Hales
- Note
- Based on research by Giuseppe Pallanti, author of La Vera Identità della Gioconda. Milan: Skira Editore, 2006
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 862348056
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451658965
- Lccn
- 2013042086
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)862348056
Subject
- ART / History / Renaissance
- trueArt, Renaissance (Europe)
- trueArtists' models
- Artists' models -- Italy | Florence -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- trueBiographies
- trueDel Giocondo, Lisa, 1479-
- trueFlorence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737
- HISTORY / Renaissance
- trueHistory writing -- Europe | Italy
- trueLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
- trueLife stories -- People in history
- trueMona Lisa (Painting)
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