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A picture is worth a thousand words; a good story creates a thousand pictures.
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Studying the history of art at university gave me the inspiration for wanting to know more about the lost years of Leonardo da Vinci and the lost works of the artists in the large studios. Art 'factories' produced art with several painters working together, all anonymously or generalized. The lost authentifications of who painted what is now speculation with educated guesses and clues, but what if one could speak with an eye-witness and gain some understanding of the times.
The Italian renaissance is touted as a creative party, when it was a dangerous time for artists forbidden to sign their work or to paint anything that remotely pushed the authorites.
There is so much speculation surrounding the Mona Lisa, and there were multiple versions of the painting from students and other artists. Some are more significant than the others. I premise that the copy in the Louvre is the second version and not of the model, Lisa Giocondo. There are two 'Mona Lisa's'. One of them is still lost or destroyed. The other, harbours a secret and a lost woman with mission. Lisabetta Buti, Leonardo's half-sister, requires the intervention of contemporary characters to resolve her dilemma. She is trapped in her portrait as much as she had been trapped in her life as an obscure woman, living in treacherous times.
Five-hundred years later, a troubled single mother of an autistic savant, has parallel challenges. Six-year-old Jupiter, sees the art in the Louvre in unique ways. Lisabetta sees him and his mother as the chance to be released from her captivity and tell the world what really happened.
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Birth Place
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Victoria, Canada
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Accomplishments
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Aspotagan Art Society 2010 for painting and
several graphic design awards over the years.
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Additional Information
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Second Lisa is due for release any day. (Today being July 23, 2012) Supportive social networks are being created to link my novel with Facebook, twitter, Linkedin,a separate website, and several other sites and pages for promoting independent writing. In the meantime my original website for my paintings is listed below.
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Second Lisa
historical fiction with a paranormal twist. A mystery of two Mona Lisa paintings. Leonardo da Vinci's autistic presentations, his sister, Lisa(betta) and Jupiter, a six-year-old boy who visits the Louvre in 2008. Lisabetta (the model for the Mona Lisa died in 1508, but she is trapped in her portrait)Jupiter, his troubled mother, and Lisabetta unite to resolve the mystery of Mona Lisa's lost identity and overcome the social challenges of living in the twenty-first century with autism. Autism or 'Artism', the creative mind and the art studios of Florence are explored.Lost art, lost identities,the lost years of Leonardo's childhood, growing up on a subsistance farm with five sisters, and his rise to fame. The 'invisible' community of female artists is also explored.
Second Lisa
writer and editor of novels and screenplays. career graphic designer with fine art degree from the University of Alberta.
Second Lisa
Second Lisa is an historical fiction of the life of the Mona Lisa, lost identities, lost art and creative autism presentations of Leonardo da Vinci. the past (fifteenth century)is linked to a contemporary autistic boy and his troubled mother. an art history lesson with attitude. paranormal elements.
Second Lisa
Second Lisa is due for release as an indie publication and e-book by the end of July, 2012.
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