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Author | : Deborah Chiel |
Publisher | : Onyx Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451411211 |
Based on the screenplay for Columbia Pictures' motion picture, this novelization tells the story of a free-spirit from Berkeley who takes a teaching position at Wellesley in 1953. Starring Academy Award( winners Julia Roberts and Marcia Gay Harden, the film is scheduled to be released December 19. Original.
Author | : James Mayhew |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art appreciation |
ISBN | : 053130177X |
While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about postimpressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.
Author | : Margaret S. Livingstone |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781419706929 |
A Harvard neurobiologist explains how vision works, citing the scientific origins of artistic genius and providing coverage of such topics as optical illusions and the correlation between learning disabilities and artistic skill.
Author | : Dianne Hales |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1451658966 |
The book rests on the premise that the woman in the painting "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 from the Florence State Archives, to the squalid street where Mona Lisa was born, to the ruins of the convent where she died
Author | : Stephanie Storey |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1628726393 |
"From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Author | : Ruthie Knapp |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1408811588 |
The famous painting, Mona Lisa, describes how she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, taken to France, hung in the Louvre Museum, was stolen and then recovered. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Author | : Serge Bramly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9780500237175 |
The woman in Leonardo da Vinci's work gazes out from the canvas with a quiet serenity. But what lies behind the famous smile? Shrouded in mystery, the Mona Lisa has attracted more speculation and questioning than any other work of art ever created. This work provides an aide memoire of the world's most famous painting. The full-page colour plates portray the Mona Lisa in close-up photographs, while Serge Bramly, the author, explores its shadowy history and the fascination the painting has engendered.
Author | : Donald Sassoon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
What has made the Mona Lisa the most famous picture in the world? Why is it that, of all the 6,000 paintings in the Louvre, it is the only one to be exhibited in a special box, set in concrete and protected by two sheets of bulletproof glass? Why do thousands of visitors throng to see it every day, ignoring the masterpieces which surround it?
Author | : Sheila Hayes |
Publisher | : Dutton Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780525667315 |
When Rowena's handsome English teacher invites her to a poetry reading, the shy high school girl changes overnight from a wallflower to an attractive, much-sought-after femme fatale.
Author | : Paul Barolsky |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271038527 |