Mona Lisa - Inside the Painting

Embora já tenha sido publicado no ano passado, mesmo assim merece aqui destaque o seguinte livro:

Jean-Pierre Mohen, Michel Menu, Bruno Mottin (ed.), Mona Lisa. Inside the Painting, Abrams, New York, 2006.

Índice:

• Cecile Scailliérez, The Mona Lisa: Subtle Materials for a Subtle Effect

• Jean-Pierre Mohen, Michel Menu, Bruno Mottin, Explorations at the Heart of the Mona Lisa

• Bruno Mottin, The Practical Sequence of the Study

• Nathalie Volle, Geneviève Aitken, Daniel Jaunard, Béatrice Lauwick, Patrick Mandron, Jean-Paul Rioux, From the Royal Apartments to the Laboratory: The History of the Painting

• Élisabeth Ravaud, The Mona Lisa's Wooden Support

• Élisabeth Ravaud, The Complex System of Fine Cracks

• Fabrice Brémand, Pascal Doumalin, Jean-Christophe Dupre, Franck Hesser, Valéry Valle, Measuring the Relief of the Panel Support without Contact

• Luca Uzielli, Paolo Dionisi Vici, Joseph Gril, Physical and Mechanical Characterization of the Support

• Patrick Perré, Romain Rémond, Joseph Gril, Simulation of the Effects of Ambient Variations

• David Dureisseix, Joseph Gril, Olivier Arnould, Mechanical Modeling of the Activity of the Flexible Frame

• Élisabeth Martin, The Preparation of the Panel

• Élisabeth Martin, Moreira, Regina Da Costa Pinto Dias, Jean-Paul Rioux, The Painter's Palette

• Bruno Mottin, Reading the Image

• Bruno Mottin, Jean-Paul Rioux, Moreira, Regina Da Costa Pinto Dias, The Traces of Time

• Jean-Paul Rioux, Close Observation

• Elsa Lambert, Photographic Imaging

• Elisabeth Ravaud, Radiography

• Éric Laval, Sandrine Pagès-Camagna, Philippe Walter, Analysis of the Paint Layer

• Guillaume Dupuis, The Spectrophotometric Approach to Color

• John Taylor, Francois Blais, Luc Cournoyer, Michel Picard, Louis Borgeat, Guy Godin, J.-Angelo Beraldin, Christian Lahanier, Marc Rioux, Examination of the Mona Lisa by High-Resolution 3-D Imaging

• Christian Lahanier, Colorimetric Analysis through Multispectral Digitization

• Christian Lahanier, High-Definition Imagery: A First Synthesis

• Jean-Pierre Mohen, Michel Menu, Bruno Mottin, The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Visitor: An Exceptional Encounter

O livro, de enormes dimensões, neste momento está à venda na Amazon, com um desconto de 80%, a 10 dólares.