BookA second Mona Lisa? : challenges of attribution and authentication and various ...
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- A second Mona Lisa? : challenges of attribution and authentication and various possibilities for evaluating a work of art / Salvatore Lorusso, Andrea Natali ; with papers by Jean-Pierre Isbouts, John Asmus, Vadim Parfenov.
Published/Produced
- Roma ; Bristol : L'Erma di Bretschneider, [2021]
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Description
- 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
ISBN
- 9788891321541
- 8891321540
- 9788891321572 (pdf)
- 8891321575
LC classification
- ND623.L5 A7 2021
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Summary
- The topic of attribution and authentication of art works is a well-known one and is currently the subject of heated debate. To arrive at a univocal scientific truth, however, it is necessary to integrate historico-humanistic and technical-experimental skills with a subjective and objective evaluation. The first part of the volume deals with experimentation relating to three valuable artifacts of different material composition: a painting, a sculpture, a codex. The second part of the research regards the emblematic case of the Mona Lisa and its uniqueness. The question connected to this study is: "Is there a second Mona Lisa?" Is the Isleworth Mona Lisa, also known as the Earlier Mona Lisa, a second version of the Louvre Mona Lisa painted by the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci? In order to provide an answer regarding attribution, a methodological path was applied to the painting on canvas "Mona Lisa with columns" (St. Petersburg), establishing that it was a copy, albeit a well-executed one. Numerous versions and copies of the Mona Lisa were also studied, basing their examination on the in-depth archival-bibliographic research of the many paintings on the same subject. The findings highlighted the distinction between two authentic versions by Leonardo, i.e. the Louvre Mona Lisa and the Isleworth Mona Lisa and two copies, i.e. the Prado and the Reynolds Mona Lisas. The latter two, considered to be the most complete and qualitatively better that many others are, in fact, either copies of previous Mona Lisas or of the two authentic versions. The final considerations are dedicated to the chronological sequence of historical sources, stylistic and aesthetic analyses, artistic techniques and experimental investigations to prove the authentication of the Isleworth Mona Lisa by Leonardo
Partial contents
- Part one. Attribution and authentication of art works -- Part two. Copies and versions of the Mona Lisa (Gioconda) -- Papers by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and John Asmus and Vadim Partenov.
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- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
- Mona Lisa (Leonardo, da Vinci)
- Authorship.
- Painting--Expertising.
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Notes
- Collected essays.
- Includes bibliographical references.
Series
- LermArte ; 27
- LermArte ; 27.
LCCN
- 2021364048
National bib agency no.
- 020347761
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)on1241709788
Type of material
- Book
Content type
- text
- still image
Media type
- unmediated
Carrier type
- volume
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- ND623.L5 A7 2021
- Copy 1
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- c.1 In Process 07-22-2021