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Author: Deborah Chiel Publisher: Onyx Books ISBN: 9780451411211 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Based on the screenplay for Columbia Pictures' motion picture, this novelization tells the story of a free-spirit from Berkeley who takes a teaching position at Wellesley in 1953. Starring Academy Award( winners Julia Roberts and Marcia Gay Harden, the film is scheduled to be released December 19. Original.
Author: Deborah Chiel Publisher: Onyx Books ISBN: 9780451411211 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Based on the screenplay for Columbia Pictures' motion picture, this novelization tells the story of a free-spirit from Berkeley who takes a teaching position at Wellesley in 1953. Starring Academy Award( winners Julia Roberts and Marcia Gay Harden, the film is scheduled to be released December 19. Original.
Author: Sheila Hayes Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780525667315 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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When Rowena's handsome English teacher invites her to a poetry reading, the shy high school girl changes overnight from a wallflower to an attractive, much-sought-after femme fatale.
Author: Margaret S. Livingstone Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ISBN: 9781419706929 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 240
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A Harvard neurobiologist explains how vision works, citing the scientific origins of artistic genius and providing coverage of such topics as optical illusions and the correlation between learning disabilities and artistic skill.
Author: James Mayhew Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 053130177X Category : Art appreciation Languages : en Pages : 44
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While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about postimpressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.
Author: Dianne Hales Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451658966 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 336
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The book rests on the premise that the woman in the painting "Mona Lisa" is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Dianne Hales has followed facts from the Florence State Archives, to the squalid street where Mona Lisa was born, to the ruins of the convent where she died
Author: Stephanie Storey Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1628726393 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 354
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"From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Author: Ruthie Knapp Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408811588 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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The famous painting, Mona Lisa, describes how she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, taken to France, hung in the Louvre Museum, was stolen and then recovered. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Author: Serge Bramly Publisher: ISBN: 9780500237175 Category : Art, Renaissance Languages : en Pages : 79
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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.
Author: Martin Kemp Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198749902 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 288
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The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.
Author: William Gibson Publisher: Spectra ISBN: 0307831191 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.
Author: Deborah Chiel
Author: Deborah Chiel
Author: Sheila Hayes
Author: Margaret S. Livingstone
Author: James Mayhew
Author: Dianne Hales
Author: Stephanie Storey
Author: Ruthie Knapp
Author: Serge Bramly
Author: Martin Kemp
Author: William Gibson