The Mona Lisa Myth (2014)

Directed by

Jean-Pierre Isbouts

Genre

documentary, history, drama

Country

United States

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at the history of the Mona Lisa painting. It also investigates the claim that an earlier version called the Isleworth Mona Lisa was also painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

informativemeasuredscholarlycontemplativesummeryreverentmystery-infusedslow-paced

What happens

The Mona Lisa Myth is a multimedia project consisting of a 2013 book and a 2014 documentary film, produced in tandem by Renaissance scholar and art historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts, with physician and art collector Christopher Heath Brown as co-author of the book and as a producer of the documentary, the latter with narration by Morgan Freeman. The book and film each examine the history of the Mona Lisa, and the longstanding theory that the Isleworth Mona Lisa is an earlier version of the same painting, also by Leonardo da Vinci. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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