THE GREATEST ARTIST OF HIS TIME
AN APPRENTICE WITH A LARCENOUS HEART AND AN AVERSION TO THE TRUTH
A YOUNG DUTCHESS WHOSE PLAIN FACE BELIES HER BEAUTIFUL SOUL
Could the complex ways these three lives intertwine hold the key to a
historical riddle as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile -- why Leonardo
da Vinci devoted three years to a painting of the second wife of an
unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a
portrait by his hand?
Only a master storyteller like two-time Newberry Medal-winner E.L.
Konigsburg could create such an intriguing answer to the puzzle behind
the most famous painting of all time.