The Eyes of the Mona Lisa. Secrets of the Mona Lisa

The eyes of the legendary «Mona Lisa» and her enigmatic smile attract millions of people from all over the world to the Louvre in Paris every year. Equally unfathomable is the titanic personality of her creator, Leonardo da Vinci – an artist, scientist, architect, strategist, inventor, whose universal genius, astonishing even for the Renaissance era, continues to amaze humanity many centuries later. Alberto Angela, brilliantly demonstrating his rare talent for bringing long-gone eras to life on the pages of his books, invites the reader to embark on a journey into Leonardo's world and join an exciting investigation into the history of the creation of his most famous masterpiece. This may reveal previously elusive details and lead to unexpected assumptions and versions.