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2008 - The Smile, a historical novel by Donna Jo Napoli about Lisa del Giocondo; 2009 - Mona Lisa's Revenge, a two-part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures (a spin-off of Doctor Who). A science-fiction story in which Mona Lisa (portrayed by Suranne Jones) is revealed to be an alien criminal who was trapped within the painting for centuries.
The Mona Lisa has survived for more than 500 years, and an international commission convened in 1952 noted that "the picture is in a remarkable state of preservation." [85] It has never been fully restored, [125] so the current condition is partly due to a variety of conservation treatments the painting has undergone. A detailed analysis in ...
Through the experiences of Salai narrated in third person, it explores the background of da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The book was published by Atheneum in 1975, manufactured by Halliday Lithograph Corporation with ten black-and-white museum plates of da Vinci paintings and drawings, of which several figure in the story. [2] [a]
Every detail of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has undergone dissection. Much of that scrutiny has led to more questions than answers about the true identities revealed in the early 16 th century ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa — one of the most famous paintings in the world — is shrouded in mystery; from questions around the figures identity, to her puzzling, enigmatic expression.
Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; June 15, 1479 – July 14, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.
The technique in this portrait and in the "Mona Lisa" is called "sfumato," in which da Vinci blended colors and shades to get gradual transitions between different shapes in each painting.
The trilogy was commercially and critically successful. Steven Poole, writing in The Guardian, described "Neuromancer and the two novels which followed, Count Zero (1986) and the gorgeously titled Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)" as making up "a fertile holy trinity, a sort of Chrome Koran (the name of one of Gibson's future rock bands) of ideas inviting endless reworkings".