Title : When the Mona Lisa Spoke - Jean Diwo - Book

Summary :

A young Sicilian painter, Antonello, sets off on muleback to Bruges to seek out a well-kept secret: oil painting, discovered by Van Eyck. A crazy bet that he wins. Antonello of Messina brings the formula for the new solvent back to Italy after three years of dramatic, humorous, and romantic adventures.
From Florence to Rome, from Naples to Flanders, from Milan to the court of Francis I, we follow the prodigious traveling theater of the geniuses of the Renaissance. These actors who give each other the cue with passion, who live their art and their faith until death, love and hate, are called Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Savonarola, the Medici, Raphael, Machiavelli, Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia... We must also add to this fabulous cast the popes, the princes, the condottieri who accompany with the clash of their weapons the most magnificent blossoming of masterpieces in history.
This was the time when Leonardo, between two inventions of flying machines, listened to the Mona Lisa speak, whose mysterious face he painted. This poplar panel, which he brought to Amboise in his luggage ten years later, would become the legendary "Mona Lisa."
Those who loved Les Dames du faubourg and Les Violons du Roi will rediscover, in the novel of this magical century, the simple and direct art of Jean Diwo and the pleasure of learning history through the daily lives of those who made it.

• EAN: 9782080666130
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