| The Second Mrs. Gioconda Contributor(s): Konigsburg, E. L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689821212 ISBN-13: 9780689821219 Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: "The riddle of the "Mona Lisa" is solved in a most ingenious reconstruction of the middle years of Leonardo Da Vinci's life. . . . Thoroughly entertaining and believable".--"School Library Journal". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Renaissance - Juvenile Fiction | Art |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 75006946 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.09" W x 7.64" (0.25 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 24949 Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Mona Lisa... Why did Leonardo da Vinci lavish three years on a painting of the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? No one knows for sure. But this story of Leonardo, his wayward apprentice Salai, and the Duke of Milan's plain young wife, Beatrice d'Este, may hold the clue to the most famous -- and puzzling -- painting of all time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Konigsburg, E. L.: - E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World. |