Resources
Bibliography
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BEGUIN S. 1983. Léonard de Vinci au Louvre. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux.
KENNETH C. 1993. Leonardo da Vinci, Penguin Books.
CHASTEL A. 1988. L'illustre incomprise. Mona Lisa. Collection “Art et Écrivain.” Paris: Éditions Gallimard.
DE VINCI L. (André CHASTEL). 2003. Traité de la peinture. Paris: Éditions Calmann-Lévy.
KEMP M. 2006. Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press.
MARANI P. C. 2000. Leonardo da Vinci. Michigan: Abrams.
SCAILLIEREZ C. 2003. La Joconde. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, collection “Solo,” no 24.
ZÖLLNER F. and NATHAN J. 2003. Leonardo da Vinci, 1512-1519: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, Cologne, London, Paris: Taschen.
MOHEN J-P, MENU M. and MOTTIN B. 2006. Au cœur de La Joconde. Gallimard.
PALLANTI G. 2004. Mona Lisa, Ed. Polistampa.
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BERGEON LANGLE S. and CURIE P. 2009. Peinture & dessin : vocabulaire typologique et technique. Editions du patrimoine.
Downloadable documents
In French:
Les accrochages de la Joconde de 1797 à nos jours
Le réaménagement de la salle des Etats
Webography
Leonardo Digitale, the documentary database (all Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts in digital form) of the Museo Leonardiano in Vinci (Italy).
Biblioteca Leonardiana, the bibliography of the Museo Leonardiano's research and documentation center in Vinci (Italy) – in Italian.
On the Mona Lisa in the Prado (website of the Museo Nacional del Prado: videos on the scientific analysis and restoration of the painting, interactive tool for comparing the painting before and after restoration).
On Yan Pei-Ming’s exhibition “The Funeral of Mona Lisa” at the Musée du Louvre.
Photo credits
Château du Clos-Lucé
© 2014 Musée du Louvre
“Pozzetto” chair
© 2014 Musée du Louvre
Front page of “Le Petit Parisien” (August 23, 1911)
© Paris, BnF
Front page of “L'Ouest-Eclair” (August 24, 1911)
© Paris, BnF
Front page of “Le Petit Parisien” (December 14, 1913)
© Paris, BnF
Photograph of the space where the Mona Lisa hung before it was stolen (1911) - Anonymous
Location unknown - © Collection IM/Kharbine-Tapabor
Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1516) - Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado - © Museo Nacional del Prado, Dist. RMN-GP / image du Prado
Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1516), infrared reflectogram - Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado - © Museo Nacional del Prado
Mona Lisa (1983) - Jean-Michel Basquiat
Private collection - © The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris 2014
The Salon Carré (1898) - Louis Béroud
Location unknown - © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art Library
In the Salon Carré at the Louvre: the Mona Lisa (1912) - Louis Béroud
Location unknown - © RMN-Grand Palais / François Vizzavona
Monalisa (1959) - Fernando Botero
Bogota, Museo Botero - © Museo Botero. Colección de Arte del Banco de la República. Colombia
Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli (c. 1470–1480) - Sandro Botticelli
London, Victoria & Albert Museum - © Victoria & Albert Museum, London - Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides
Portrait of François I, King of France (c. 1530) - Jean Clouet
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski
The Woman with the Pearl (c. 1868–1870) - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle
Presumed portrait of Caterina Sforza (1481–1483) - Lorenzo di Credi
Forli, Pinacoteca Civica - © Photo Scala, Florence
Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1490–1500) - Lorenzo di Credi
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - © Bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, 1943
LHOOQ (1919) - Marcel Duchamp
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou - © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris 2014 Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Migeat
Young Woman with a Dog (16th century) - Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci
Rochefort, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire - © Collection du musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Rochefort
The Birth of St. John the Baptist (1486–1490) - Domenico Ghirlandaio
Florence, Tornabuoni Chapel, S. Maria Novella - © Photo Scala, Florence/Fondo Edifici di Culto - Ministero dell'Interno
Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci (1818) - Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris - © RMN-Grand Palais / Jacques L'Hoir / Jean Popovitch
Mona Lisa with Keys (1930) - Fernand Léger
Biot, Musée National Fernand Léger - © ADAGP, Paris 2014, RMN-Grand Palais (musée Fernand Léger) / Gérard Blot
Leonardo da Vinci Painting the Mona Lisa (1863) - Cesare Maccari
Location unknown - © Photo Scala, Florence - DeAgostini Picture Library
Portrait of Benedetto di Tommaso Portinari (1487) - Hans Memling
Florence, Uffizi Gallery - © Alinari Archives, Florence, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Finsiel / Alinari
Portrait of Vincent Delieuvin (2014) - Antoine Mongodin
© 2014 Musée du Louvre / Antoine Mongodin
The Funeral of Mona Lisa (2008), polyptych - Yan Pei-Ming
Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi - © Yan Pei-Ming. Courtesy Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, Abu Dhabi / ADAGP, Paris 2014 / André Morin
The Grande Galerie, between 1801 and 1805 (1801–1805) - Hubert Robert
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Head and shoulders of a woman, in three-quarters profile facing left, with folded arms (c. 1504–1507) - Raffaello Sanzio, known as Raphael
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michèle Bellot
Portrait of Maddalena Doni (1505–1506) - Raffaello Sanzio, known as Raphael
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina - © Alinari Archives, Florence, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Nicola Lorusso
Map of Florence (c. 1500–1510) - Lucantonio degli Uberti, after Francesco Rosselli
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett (SMPK) - © BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Jörg P. Anders
Self-portrait (c. 1566–1568) - Giorgio Vasari
Florence, Uffizi Gallery - © Alinari Archives, Florence, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Finsiel / Alinari
Marginal annotation in an early edition of Cicero (Octobre 1503) - Agostino Vespucci
Heidelberg, University Library - © Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek
Ginevra de' Benci (1474–1478) - Leonardo da Vinci
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art - © National Gallery of Art - Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Madonna of the Carnation, a.k.a. Madonna with Child (c. 1475) - Leonardo da Vinci
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - © BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image BStGS
Study of a skull (1489) - Leonardo da Vinci
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
Studies of geometry, clouds, plants, engineering, etc. (c. 1490) - Leonardo da Vinci
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
Portrait of a Musician (c. 1490) - Leonardo da Vinci
Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana - © BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image BPK
Presumed portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, known as The Lady with an Ermine (c. 1490) - Leonardo da Vinci
Krakow, Czartoryski Museum - © Erich Lessing
Portrait of a Lady from the Court of Milan, wrongly known as La Belle Ferronnière (c. 1495–1499) - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux
Portrait of a Lady from the Court of Milan, wrongly known as La Belle Ferronnière (c. 1495–1499), x-ray - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elsa Lambert
Portrait of a Lady from the Court of Milan, wrongly known as La Belle Ferronnière (c. 1495–1499), back - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elsa Lambert
The Virgin of the Rocks (c. 1499) - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN (Musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux
Portrait of Isabelle d'Este (c. 1500) - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
Study of a tree (c. 1500–1505) - Leonardo da Vinci
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
Study of rocks (c. 1500–1510) - Leonardo da Vinci
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
Various studies including an angel of the Annunciation (c. 1503–1504) - Leonardo da Vinci and a pupil
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (c. 1503–1519) - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / René-Gabriel Ojéda
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (c. 1503–1519), before restoration - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Jean-Louis Bellec
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519) - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519), infrared reflectogram - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elsa Lambert
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519), under raking light from the right - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elsa Lambert
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519), ultraviolet fluorescence photograph - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elsa Lambert
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519), x-ray - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elisabeth Ravaud, Elsa Lambert
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519), photograph in glass frame broken by the attack of 1956 - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © Musée du Louvre / Documentation des Peintures
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519), back - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elisabeth Ravaud, Elsa Lambert
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Joconde in French (c. 1503–1519), sections - Leonardo da Vinci
Paris, Musée du Louvre - © C2RMF / Elisabeth Ravaud, Elsa Lambert
Storm over a Landscape (c. 1508–1510) - Leonardo da Vinci
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
Landscape studies (c. 1508–1511) - Leonardo da Vinci
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
Study of rock formations (c. 1508–1511) - Leonardo da Vinci
Windsor, Windsor Castle - © London, The Royal Collection © 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II
Self-portrait (c. 1512–1515) - Leonardo da Vinci
Turin, Biblioteca Reale - © Alinari Archives, Florence, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Fratelli Alinari
Thirty Are Better Than One (1963) - Andy Warhol
Private collection - © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / ADAGP, Paris 2014
Portrait of a Lady (c. 1460) - Rogier van der Weyden
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art - © National Gallery of Art - Andrew W. Mellon Collection