The Second Mrs. Gioconda
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: April 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780689821219
Subjects: Modern fiction; Salai, Andrea,; Fiction; Beatrice,; consort of Lodovico Sforza il Moro, Duke of Milan,; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Leonardo,; Children: Grades 4-6; Historical - Other; Art (painting  sculpture  artists  architecture  etc.); Historical - Renaissance; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Other; ca. 1480-ca. 1524; da Vinci,; 1452-1519; 1475-1497
First sentence: WHY, PEOPLE ASK, why did Leonardo da Vinci choose to paint the portrait of the second wife of an unimportant Florentine merchant when dukes and duchesses all over Italy and the King of France as well, were all begging for a portrait by his hand?