Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting

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 vehic...