Portraits by Country - Portraits by Belgian Artists, Portraits by British Artists, Portraits by German Artists, Portraits by Italian Artists (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Portraits by Belgian Artists, Portraits by British Artists, Portraits by German Artists, Portraits by Italian Artists, Portraits by Polish Artists, Portraits by Spanish Artists, Portraits by Swiss Artists, Mona Lisa, Cobbe Portrait, Portraits of Charles Darwin, Coffin Portrait, Chandos Portrait, the Virgin of the Navigators, Portrait of a Man, the Chocolate Girl, Venus Victrix, John Ruskin, Portrait of Princess, Portrait of Daniele Barbaro, Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan, Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, the Chinese Convert, Elizabeth I: the Armada Portrait, Portrait of Marcel Duchamp. Excerpt: Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence, Italy by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci during the Renaissance. The work is currently owned by the Government of France and is on display at the Louvre museum in Paris under the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Arguably, it is the most famous and iconic painting in the world. The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a woman whose facial expression is frequently described as enigmatic. Others believe that the slight smile is an indication that the subject is hiding a secret. The ambiguity of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. In 1911, it was stolen and copied; the copies were sold as the genuine painting. It was recovered in 1913. Self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, executed in red chalk sometime between 1512 and 1515Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Mona... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=70889