num_pages: 148
description: Why Mona Lisa Smiles discusses Vasari's shrewd, witty, intimate awareness of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and relates the Lives to the works of Castiglione, Aretino, Cellini, and Rabelais.
language: English
title: Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
titlecomplete: Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
genres: Art History, Art
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Penn State University Press