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Mona Lisa : The People and the Painting, Hardcover by Kemp, Martin; Pallanti,...
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- ISBN
- 9780198749905
- Book Title
- Mona Lisa : the People and the Painting
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Art, Social Science
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, General, Customs & Traditions
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 22.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal--not the silly secrets that the "Leonardo loonies" continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual beginning we see how the painting metamorphosed into a "universal picture" that became the prime vehicle for Leonardo's prodigious knowledge of the human and natural worlds. We learn about the new money of 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, for the first time, the illegitimate Leonardo's real mother and find out where he was really 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. Above all, 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. This is the book that brings back a sense of reality into the creation of the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. And the actual Mona Lisa , it turns out, is even more astonishing and transcendent than the Mona Lisa of legend.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198749902
ISBN-13
9780198749905
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235271414
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mona Lisa : the People and the Painting
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nd623
Reviews
"Kemp analyses the painting as a key to all of Leonardo's thinking and works, describing it as 'the window of the soul', in which is reflected all the knowledge acquired by the artist-scientist in the course of his life spent in the study of anatomy, optics, perspective, geology, atmosphere, hydrology and the 'science' of painting." -- Pietro C. Marani, The Burlington Magazine"[A] stimulating study grounded in documentary and literary sources, not to mention the painting itself....Readable and informative, this book is invaluable for offering a better understanding of the painting....Essential."--CHOICE, "Kemp analyses the painting as a key to all of Leonardo's thinking and works, describing it as 'the window of the soul', in which is reflected all the knowledge acquired by the artist-scientist in the course of his life spent in the study of anatomy, optics, perspective, geology, atmosphere, hydrology and the 'science' of painting." -- Pietro C. Marani, The Burlington Magazine "[A] stimulating study grounded in documentary and literary sources, not to mention the painting itself....Readable and informative, this book is invaluable for offering a better understanding of the painting....Essential."--CHOICE, "Kemp analyses the painting as a key to all of Leonardos thinking and works, describing it as 'the window of the soul', in which is reflected all the knowledge acquired by the artist-scientist in the course of his life spent in the study of anatomy, optics, perspective, geology, atmosphere, hydrology and the 'science' of painting." -- Pietro C. Marani, The Burlington Magazine "[A] stimulating study grounded in documentary and literary sources, not to mention the painting itself....Readable and informative, this book is invaluable for offering a better understanding of the painting....Essential."--CHOICE, "[A] stimulating study grounded in documentary and literary sources, not to mention the painting itself....Readable and informative, this book is invaluable for offering a better understanding of the painting....Essential."--CHOICE, [Kemp & Pallanti] marshal meticulous research into the family histories of painter, patron and subject; deep knowledge of the traditions and allusions of Renaissance art; and scientific analyses of the venerated object.
Table of Content
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Old Gentry and New Money: Lisa and Francesco2. Leonardo from Vinci3. Ser Piero and Francesco4. An intermittent History 1: Renaissance Records5. An intermittent History 2: The Rise to Fame6. From Portrait to Poetry 1: Dolce still nuovo7. From Portrait to Poetry 2: Painter and Poets8. The Universal Picture9. Close Observation: Science IntervenesConclusionIndexFurther Reading
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-961206
Dewey Decimal
759.5
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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