- Fiction, Large type books, History, Juvenile fiction
Relates, from the point of view of his servant Salai, how Leonardo da Vinci came to paint the Mona Lisa.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and warm.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- E. L. Konigsburg
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 138
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Aladdin Paperbacks, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786282869
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“WHY, PEOPLE ASK, why did Leonardo da Vinci choose to paint the portrait of the second wife of an unimportant Florentine merchant when dukes and duchesses all over Italy and the King of France as well, were all begging for a portrait by his hand?”
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