Author: Deborah Chiel
Publisher: Onyx Books
ISBN: 9780451411211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Based on the screenplay for Columbia Pictures' motion picture, this novelization tells the story of a free-spirit from Berkeley who takes a teaching position at Wellesley in 1953. Starring Academy Award( winners Julia Roberts and Marcia Gay Harden, the film is scheduled to be released December 19. Original.
Mona Lisa Smile
Flower Garden Artist's Edition
Author: Maria Trolle
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423647072
Category : Coloring books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features twenty oversized art card drawings brimming with lush gardens, flowers, and fantastic creatures common to a Scandinavian landscape to hang on one's wall or share with friends.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423647072
Category : Coloring books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features twenty oversized art card drawings brimming with lush gardens, flowers, and fantastic creatures common to a Scandinavian landscape to hang on one's wall or share with friends.
Me and My Mona Lisa Smile
Author: Sheila Hayes
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780525667315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
When Rowena's handsome English teacher invites her to a poetry reading, the shy high school girl changes overnight from a wallflower to an attractive, much-sought-after femme fatale.
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780525667315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
When Rowena's handsome English teacher invites her to a poetry reading, the shy high school girl changes overnight from a wallflower to an attractive, much-sought-after femme fatale.
Katie and the Mona Lisa
Author: James Mayhew
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 053130177X
Category : Art appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about postimpressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 053130177X
Category : Art appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about postimpressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.
Mona Lisa
Author: Dianne Hales
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451658966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The book rests on the premise that the woman in the painting "Mona Lisa" is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Dianne Hales has followed facts from the Florence State Archives, to the squalid street where Mona Lisa was born, to the ruins of the convent where she died
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451658966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The book rests on the premise that the woman in the painting "Mona Lisa" is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Dianne Hales has followed facts from the Florence State Archives, to the squalid street where Mona Lisa was born, to the ruins of the convent where she died
Vision and Art (Updated and Expanded Edition)
Author: Margaret S. Livingstone
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419706929
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Harvard neurobiologist explains how vision works, citing the scientific origins of artistic genius and providing coverage of such topics as optical illusions and the correlation between learning disabilities and artistic skill.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419706929
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Harvard neurobiologist explains how vision works, citing the scientific origins of artistic genius and providing coverage of such topics as optical illusions and the correlation between learning disabilities and artistic skill.
Mona Lisa Smile
Author: Mona Lisa Smile
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Oil and Marble
Author: Stephanie Storey
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1628726393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1628726393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Who Stole Mona Lisa?
Author: Ruthie Knapp
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408811588
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The famous painting, Mona Lisa, describes how she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, taken to France, hung in the Louvre Museum, was stolen and then recovered. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408811588
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The famous painting, Mona Lisa, describes how she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, taken to France, hung in the Louvre Museum, was stolen and then recovered. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Mona Lisa
Author: Serge Bramly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500237175
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The woman in Leonardo da Vinci's work gazes out from the canvas with a quiet serenity. But what lies behind the famous smile? Shrouded in mystery, the Mona Lisa has attracted more speculation and questioning than any other work of art ever created. This work provides an aide memoire of the world's most famous painting. The full-page colour plates portray the Mona Lisa in close-up photographs, while Serge Bramly, the author, explores its shadowy history and the fascination the painting has engendered.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500237175
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The woman in Leonardo da Vinci's work gazes out from the canvas with a quiet serenity. But what lies behind the famous smile? Shrouded in mystery, the Mona Lisa has attracted more speculation and questioning than any other work of art ever created. This work provides an aide memoire of the world's most famous painting. The full-page colour plates portray the Mona Lisa in close-up photographs, while Serge Bramly, the author, explores its shadowy history and the fascination the painting has engendered.