Download or read book The Second Mrs Gioconda written by E.L. Konigsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Leonardo da Vinci lavish three years on painting the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? In E. L. Konigsburg's intriguing novel, the answer lies with the complex relationship between the genius, his morally questionable young apprentice, and a young duchess whose plain features belie the sensitivity of her soul.
Download or read book Gioconda written by Lucille Turner and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solitary child, Leonardo da Vinci's only intimate is Lisa Gherardini, the girl who spies on him in his workshop. Spurned by his tutor, he is sent by his despairing father to Florence as an apprentice. Under the guiding hand of Verrocchio, the master sculptor, he begins to make his name. But success requires sacrifice; Florence demands a level of conformity impossible for him. Forced to leave, Leonardo places himself at the service of the charismatic, power-thirsty Duke of Milan. His journey leads him back to Lisa and the portrait he has waited so long to paint, the culmination of his life's work. From the glittering court of the Medici to the mortuaries of Milan and the battlefields of the Po valley, Lucille Turner's powerful novel vividly imagines Leonardo's lonely struggle to convince others of his vision of the world.
Download or read book Gioconda written by Gabriele D'Annunzio and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Gioconda written by Amilcare Ponchielli and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Opera Score composed by Amilcare Ponchielli.
Download or read book La Gioconda written by Amilcare Ponchielli and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Gioconda written by Tony Nesca and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Gioconda is a boozy, rock and roll love story about a Canadian college student who meets a beautiful young exchange student from France, and their unexpected immediate connection as they're surrounded by a whirlwind of marijuana sex-jaunts and live-band, late-night drunk loving. Both sad and beautiful, desperate and raunchy, and jam-packed with humour, La Gioconda is written in Nesca's unique free-flow-lyric, with words, ideas and sentences that go on for pages, alive and beautiful and unfettered by conventional modes of writing.
Download or read book Bella Gioconda written by Richard Heket and published by Lavender and Chamomile Press. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years can confuse identity. An old chalk drawing of a girl, Maria, the daughter of a Chianti vintner leaves a Swiss art collector, Claude Beauvin entangled in a Renaissance love story from the past. The drawing is currently owned by a reclusive young widow, Andrea Garibaldi-Chase, who puts the drawing up for auction. With smoldering rumors that Leonardo da Vinci is the artist of the portrait, history is set on fire by a New York art dealer, an art history professor, and an intellectual property crimes investigator from INTERPOL who are all caught up in the drawings history. It's not until after the auction that Beauvin learns who the girl really was, what influence she had over da Vinci and the centuries since, and how his growing feelings for Andrea transcends time and identity.
Download or read book The Gioconda Smile written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Libretto of La gioconda an opera in verse Engl adaptation by H Hersee Roy Ital opera Covent garden written by Tobia Gorrio and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book not far from the gioconda tree written by Tim J. Kelly and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1964 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gioconda Smile written by Aldous Huxley and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miss Spence will be down directly, sir.""Thank you," said Mr. Hutton, without turning round. Janet Spence's parlourmaid was so ugly—ugly on purpose, it always seemed to him, malignantly, criminally ugly—that he could not bear to look at her more than was necessary. The door closed. Left to himself, Mr. Hutton got up and began to wander round the room, looking with meditative eyes at the familiar objects it contained.
Download or read book The Country Under My Skin written by Gioconda Belli and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is an account of the Nicaraguan revolution, of meetings with Fidel Castro and exile in Costa Rica, and it is a tale of political and romantic awakening as Gioconda Belli learnt to fight against the shackles of society.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Opera written by Matthew Boyden and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.
Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Serge Bramly and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Gioconda written by Amilcare Ponchielli and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inhabited Woman written by Gioconda Belli and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavinia is The Inhabited Woman: accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being, then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent dictator and—through the power of love—finds the courage to act. The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
