{"product_id":"9788897737391-three-mona-lisas","title":"Three Mona Lisas","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRab Hatfield uses rarely examined laboratory photographs, a recently discovered annotation, and a hitherto unknown letter to shed new light on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.\u003cbr\u003eIn this study Rab Hatfield provides a thorough, no-nonsense analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eGioconda.\u003c\/i\u003e 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. There follow discussions 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 \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLa Gioconda\u003c\/i\u003e rather than the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa.\u003c\/i\u003eContents: Part One: Setting the Stage - I. Vasari and Some Other Well Known Sources and Documents.  II. The \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e As We See It Now.   Part Two: The Three \u003ci\u003eMona Lisas.\u003c\/i\u003e   III.   The Changes: The x-ray photographs and the first \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa.\u003c\/i\u003e   IV.   The Annotation of Ser Agostino Vespucci.   V. Filippo Strozzi's letter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57696325206390,"sku":"9788897737391","price":28.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40316273.jpg?v=1776404672","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9788897737391-three-mona-lisas","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}