Mona Lisa My life with Leonardo

The L’other histoire collection: stories or facts of our cultural heritage, revisited in an original way, through the point of view of a character or a secondary element. “Among the avalanche of books on Leonardo da Vinci, we find a little nugget in color. Mona Lisa - My life with Leonardo takes you inside the head of a great lady: The Mona Lisa. Page after page, the young reader discovers through the eyes of Mona all the genius of Leonardo da Vinci: we enter his studio, we rub shoulders with his perfectionism, we meet his rival Michelangelo ... and we even end up understanding d 'where does this famous smile come from! "(Beaux Arts Magazine) “Drawn in large, lively and colorful lines, very far from the colors of the painting, it is restored in an astounding way, with a few liberties here and there which mean that from an icon, it becomes particularly human, with its movements of mood, its jealousy towards Saint Anne or the characters of the Wedding at Cana, his emotion at the death of his master. For children, it is removed, effective and dust off all academic approaches. Yet the essential is said and the proximity to the work assured. " (The notes)