This volume is a masterful work heralding a new way to study a painting in the most objective manner. Investigating the subject of whether the Louvre painting is not the first but a later portrait of Mona Lisa, Lorusso has collated all expert published opinions on the historical and scientific evidence and draws the most obvious conclusions.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Giorgio Vasari’s Lives
Chapter 2 - The Heidelberg Document
Chapter 3 - The Raphael Drawing
Chapter 4 - Antonio de Beatis’s Travel Journal
Chapter 5 - Stylistic and background elements
Chapter 6 - The Prado Mona Lisa
Chapter 7 - Diagnostic-analytical examinations by the
Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF)
Chapter 8 - Past references to two Mona Lisas
Chapter 9 - Further evidence of two paintings
Chapter 10 - Profile and features of the original portrait of Lisa del Giocondo
Chapter 11 - Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Appendix I - Quotations originally in French and Italian
Biographical notes
Compendio
Challenges of attribution and authentication and various possibilities for evaluating a work of art
museums, libraries and archives
2001 - 2020 Editorials / Editoriali
Quaderni di Scienza della Conservazione
Musei, biblioteche, archivi
La scienza prima della scienza
Villae - convegno di studi - una sintesi introduttiva
Collections et collectionneurs
L'Italia à la cour de France
Le Paragone peinture-sculpture en Italie, XV - XVII siècle
L'autentico, il falso, il riprodotto, nel settore di beni culturali
Significato valore e funzione della ricerca artistica
