Lisabetta: A Stolen Glance - Paperback

by V. Knox (Author)

ART HISTORY DELIVERED IN A GHOST STORYA biographical fantasy of reincarnation and lost identities based on the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, his kid-sister, Lisabetta Buti, and their 21st counterparts 500 years laterONLY GREAT ART REMAINS TRULY IMMORTALLured from her iconic portrait in the Louvre by an autistic boy and his mother, the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci's sister, the true Mona Lisa, steps outside her painting to redress a five hundred-year-old case of mistaken identity. Some artists break all the rules. One only has to gaze into the eyes of a divine portrait to discover the undeniable truth - that a master artist can capture the soul of a subject. But sometimes it takes five-hundred years for the energy to cool. During bouts of shared lucid dreaming and time-slipping, experiences of reincarnation reveal lost loves, stolen dreams, missing paintings... and, finally, the irony of an anonymous woman becoming the most famous face in the world.In the spring of 1519, my brother Leonardo still believed he could fly - Lisabettathe true face of the 'Mona Lisa'