The lady speaks : uncovering the secrets of the Mona Lisa / W. N. Varvel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varvel, W. N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Mona Lisa.

Leonardo, da Vinci.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Brown Books Publishing Group, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For almost five hundred years, the Mona Lisa smile has mystified viewers and intrigued historians. Completed in 1515, the Mona Lisa has hidden the lady's secret well. Now, after years devoted to research and analysis of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, W. N. Varvel has decoded the Mona Lisa and reveals the message within her smile, a secret too dang

Contents:

Cover Page; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Author's Note; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Artists and Visionaries; Chapter 1: Marching Toward the "New Jerusalem"; Chapter 2: Two "Last" Suppers; Chapter 3: Leonardo's Little Princess from Ferrara; Part II: The Secret Message; Chapter 4: The Promise: The Manchester Madonna; Chapter 5: The Promise Fulfilled: Pietà of St. Peter's; Chapter 6: The Promise Forgotten: The Entombment; Chapter 7: The "Hindered": St. Matthew; Part III: The Sistine Speaks

Chapter 8: Martyred Between the Altar and the Temple: The Prophet ZechariahChapter 9: The Foundation Stone: The Flood; Chapter 10: The Five Sibyls: The Apostle's Creed; Part IV: The Lady "Speaks"; Chapter 11: The Motivation for the Mona Lisa; Chapter 12: Inhabiting Her Place: Mona Lisa; Chapter 13: The Feast of the Tabernacles: The Balcony and the Burdensome Yoke; Chapter 14: A Smile and an Unfinished Finger; Chapter 15: The Woman from Canaan; Chapter 16: Theological Duality; Chapter 17: St. John the Baptist: Witness to the Mona Lisa; Chapter 18: Leonardo's Last Anagram

Chapter 19: A Second Chance at DestinyPart V: Leonardo's Special Effects; Chapter 20: Beasts at the Gate of Jerusalem; Chapter 21: The Eyes of the Mona Lisa; Epilogue; Appendix: Lisa Gherardini: The Mona Vanna; Discussion Points; Works Cited and Further Reading; About the Author; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781612541532

1612541534