Mona Lisa's Moustache

Mona Lisa's Moustache
Author: Mary Settegast
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781890482916

Now in paperback -- a groundbreaking effort to find meaning in the disintegration of Western culture by looking through the lenses of economics, philosophy, art, physics, ecology, and spirituality.

Brush Mona Lisa's Hair

Brush Mona Lisa's Hair
Author: Julie Appel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781402735660

Invites young readers to touch Baroque and Renaissance paintings, including Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," and Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." On board pages.

The Psychology of Contemporary Art

The Psychology of Contemporary Art
Author: Gregory Minissale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 110701932X

This book examines how contemporary artworks can affect our psychology, producing immersive experiences.

The Last Mona Lisa

The Last Mona Lisa
Author: Jonathan Santlofer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728240778

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER! "Unstoppable what-happens-next momentum."—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A deliciously tense read."—Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author From award-winning crime writer and celebrated artist Jonathan Santlofer comes an enthralling tale about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, the forgeries that appeared in its wake, and the present-day underbelly of the art world. August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now returned to the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: Art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar but curiously helpful woman. Soon, Luke tumbles deep into the world of art and forgery, a land of obsession and danger. The Last Mona Lisa is a suspenseful and seductive tale, perfect for fans of the Netflix documentaries This Is A Robbery and Made You Look and readers obsessed with the world of art heists and forgeries.

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa
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.

The Stories of the Mona Lisa

The Stories of the Mona Lisa
Author: Piotr Barsony
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1620872285

A history of modern painting, presented through the story of the Mona Lisa, features an artist who serves as a museum tour guide introducing famous movements while sharing creative images of how the Mona Lisa may have appeared if painted by other master artists.

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa
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

Becoming Mona Lisa

Becoming Mona Lisa
Author: Donald Sassoon
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780156027113

The "Mona Lisa" is widely recognized as the most famous painting in the history of art--and an undeniable icon of pop culture. Her celebrated face is used to sell everything from champagne to automobiles, and appears on ashtrays, mouse pads, and refrigerator magnets. More than any other art object, the "Mona Lisa "demonstrates that something can be high art and pop, classic and cool. Likewise, Donald Sassoon's elegant narrative is as much the story of one painting's ascendance to the status of global icon as it is the popularization of serious and distinguished art. A professor and acclaimed writer, Sassoon provides a fascinating account of Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance genius who created the picture; who the mysterious subject was; why it gained its unrivalled position in the art world; and how it has come to be used and abused by other artists and the international advertising industry. Lavishly illustrated, "Becoming Mona Lisa" is at once social, cultural, and art history of the highest order.