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In this study Rab Hatfield provides a thorough, no-nonsense analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or Gioconda. The book begins with a consideration of the generally known sources and documents and a careful look at the painting as we know it now. Discussions follow of rarely examined laboratory photographs and of a recently discovered annotation by Ser Agostino Vespucci in a book he owned of letters by Cicero, from which we learn that Leonardo left a portrait of "Lisa del Giocondo" unfinished no later than October 1503. The book concludes with a hitherto unknown letter written in 1515 by Filippo Strozzi to Lorenzo de' Medici, Captain General of the Florentine Armies and soon to become Duke of Urbino, describing some supposed advances these two men made to Mon(n)a Lisa. The laboratory photographs and newly discovered sources make it clear that the Mona Lisa has probably been reworked twice, that it in fact depicts Mon(n)a Lisa del Giocondo, and that it would be better if we spoke of it as La Gioconda rather than the Mona Lisa.
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Rab Hatfield was born in 1937 in New York City. He received his higher education at Harvard and the University of Munich. From 1966 to 1971 he taught at Yale and from 1971 to 2012 at Syracuse University in Florence. A three-time Fellow of Villa I Tatti, he has also been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His recent books are The Wealth of Michelangelo (2002); Finding Leonardo: The Case for Recovering the Battle of Anghiari (2007); and Botticelli and Herbert Horne, of which he was the editor and to which he contributed an essay on Botticelli's Primavera (2009). He is also the author of a recent essay on Michelangelo's fortifications that appeared in Michelangelo e il linguaggio dei disegni di architettura, edited by Golo Maurer and Alessandro Nova (2012). Now retired, Professor Hatfield lives outside of Florence.
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- PublisherOfficina Libraria
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 8897737390
- ISBN 13 9788897737391
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- Number of pages230
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Dans cet essai, Rab Hatfield analyse en profondeur et donne une nouvelle lecture de la Mona Lisa ou Joconde de Léonard de Vinci, sans doute le tableau le plus célèbre de toute l'histoire de l'art.Le livre s'ouvre avec un réexamen des sources et documents connus et une investigation méticuleuse de tout ce que donne à voir la toile dans son état actuel. Vient ensuite un choix d'images de laboratoire, rarement examinées, et enfin l'étude d'une découverte récente :Une annotation par ser Agostino Vespucci, dans un exemplaire des Lettres de Cicéron lui appartenant, annotation qui nous apprend que Léonard avait abandonné un portrait inachevé de " Lisa del Giocondo " et ce au plus tard en octobre 1503.Le livre se termine sur une lettre - jusqu'à maintenant inconnue - écrite en 1515 par Filippo Strozzi à Laurent de Médicis, capitaine général des armées de Florence et bientôt duc d'Urbin, et qui fait état d'éventuelles tentatives de séduction de Mona Lisa par deux hommes.D'après l'auteur, les images de laboratoire et les nouvelles sources montrent que le tableau de la Mona Lisa a été très probablement repris au moins deux fois, et qu'il représente effectivement Mona Lisa del Giocondo, identification qui jusqu'à maintenant n'a été acceptée que par une partie des spécialistes de l'oeuvre de Léonard de Vinci. - Nombre de page(s) : 248 - Poids : 715g - Genre : Art en langue anglaise. Seller Inventory # N9788897737391
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