Following the announcement of another Mona Lisa portrait by
Leonardo da Vinci, held in a Swiss bank vault for over 40 years,
this book is the first to analyze the meaning of this astonishing
discovery, and how it radically changes our understanding of the
Mona Lisa in the Louvre. By tracing Leonardo's movements in
Florence on an almost day-to-day basis, Drs. Isbouts and Brown are
able to reconstruct the fascinating chronology of the Mona Lisa
portrait, and show how the subject ultimately became an obsession
in the latter part of Leonardo's life. The authors posit that
whereas the Swiss Mona Lisa is clearly a portrait drawn from life
of a young Florentine woman, the Louvre Mona Lisa is the
culmination of Leonardo's lifelong quest for the mystery of
motherhood, as expressed in his more than ten paintings of the
Madonna motif. Written as narrative history, yet grounded in modern
scholarship, The Mona Lisa Myth not only shatters the portrait's
mythology, but also offers a bold new interpretation of the world's
most famous painting that will revolutionize our understanding of
Leonardo life and work.
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