Dyes and Silk In the Mona Lisa By Professor Dolores García Ruiz
By Professor Dolores García Ruiz, Art History Expert. Since the beginning of my research on the life and...
Connoisseurship
The Gioconda, Lost and Recovered by Gérard Boudin de l’Arche
Following the publication of his latest book, The Gioconda Lost and Recovered, Gérard Boudin de l’Arche explains: “It is...
The ‘Earlier Version’ of the Mona Lisa as the Portrait of Lisa del Giocondo described by Vasari
By Prof. Jean-Pierre Isbouts Graduate Professor, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara; National Geographic author, and co-author of “The...
The Challenges of a Leonardo Attribution
Few works of art have garnered as much attention from experts and the public as the ‘Mona Lisa’...
Summary of Connoisseurship
This section documented expert opinions both on the artistic merits of the earlier version, and its authorship by...
A Necessary Counterpoint
By Professor Átila Soares da Costa Filho, Author, Art History, Philosophy and Sociology Expert. Among approximately sixty alleged...
‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘Gioconda’
Speech by Alessandro Vezzosi Geneva, September 27, 2012 Director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, Vinci, Italy....
The Man Who Found the Mona Lisa
Hugh Blaker 1873-1936 “ART CONNOISSEUR AND COLLECTOR” was the heading of his obituary notice in The Times of...
Views of Italian Experts of the 1920s
In 1921, the ‘Earlier Mona Lisa‘ was shown to some of the greatest Italian Leonardo experts of the...
On Beauty and Quality
No sooner had Hugh Blaker announced his discovery of the ‘Earlier Mona Lisa’, than Paul Konody, the internationally...