An irresistible insight into the world as it looks through the eyes of
the most famous painting of all time.
Listen to my history. My adventures are worth hearing. I have lived
many lifetimes and been loved by emperors, kings and thieves. I have
survived kidnap and assault. Revolution and two world wars. But this is
also a love story. And the story of what we will do for those we love.
In Leonardo da Vinci's studio, bursting with genius imagination,
towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented
muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five
hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power, money, intrigue,
the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo is sought after and stolen. Over the
centuries, few could hear her voice, but now she is ready to tell her
own story, in her own words - a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak.
Weaving through the years, she takes us from the dazzling world of
Florentine studios to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles,
and into the Twentieth Century.
I, Mona Lisa is a deliciously vivid, compulsive and illuminating
story about the lost and forgotten women throughout history.
