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BOOKS- NONFICTION
Bramly, Serge. Mona Lisa. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

Galli, Letizia. Mona Lisa: The Secret of the Smile. New York:Delacorte Press, 1996.

Keele, Kenneth D. The Genesis of Mona Lisa. New York: H.Schuman, 1959.

Malraux, Andre. Mona Lisa's Escort: Andre Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture. New York: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Mankowitz, Wolf. Gioconda: The Misadventures of the Mona Lisa from August, 1911, When She Mysteriously Disappeared from the Louvre… London: W.H. Allen, 1987.

McMullen, Roy. Mona Lisa: The Picture and the Myth. New York:Da Capo Press, 1977.

Reit, Seymour. The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa. New York: Summitt Books, 1981.

Sassoon, Don. Becoming Mona Lisa: The Making of a Global Icon. New York: Harcourt, 2001.

---. Mona Lisa: The History of the World's Most Famous Painting. London: Harper Collins, 2001.

Rosci, Marco. The Hidden Leonardo. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.P.A, 1977.

Settegast, Mary. Mona Lisa's Moustache: making Sense of a Dissolving World. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 2001.

Storey, Mary Rose; Bourdon, David.. Mona Lisas. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1980.

Vezzosi, Alessandro. Leonardo DaVinci: The Mind of the Renaissance. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1997.

ARTICLES
Adour, K.K. "Mona Lisa Syndrome: Solving the Enigma of the Gioconda Smile." Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. 98 no.3 (1989):196-199.

Attias L. "A Room of Her Own: A Private Gallery at the Louvre for the Mona Lisa." ArtNews. 97 no.5 (May 1998): 94.

Barolsky, Paul. "Mona Lisa Explained." Source: Notes in the History of Art. 13 no.2 (Winter 1994): n.a.

Baron, Robert A. "From Romance to Ritual: Mona Lisa Images for a Modern World." Visual Resources. 15 no.2 (1999): 217-234.

Beguin, S. "La Jaconde and the Demon." Connaissance Des Arts. no.475 (1991):62-69.

Belting, H. "The Fetish of Art in the Twentieth Century: The Case of the Mona Lisa." Diogenes. no.183 (1998): 83-106.

Borkowski, Joseph E. "Mona Lisa: The Enigma of the Smile." Journal of Forensic Sciences. 37 no.6 (November 1992): 1706-1711.

Carman C.H. "Towards a Context for Understanding Leonardo Mona Lisa Universality and Nothingness." Storia Dell Arte. no.76 (September-December 1992): 247-255.

Cohen, Sherry Suib. "A Smile Says it All." New Woman. 56 no.12 (December 1993): 198-205+.

Daley, Michael. "Unvarnished Truth. "Arts Review. (January 1999):20+.

Dali, S. "Why They Attack the Mona Lisa." ArtNews. 91 no.9 (November 1992): 166.

Danto, Ginger. "Mona Lisa: What Becomes a Legend Most." Art News. 88 no.6 (Summer 1989): 148-151.

---. "Mona Lisa Slips Around the Corner." Art News. 91 (April 1992): 50.

---. "A New Antireflective Glass Case for the Mona Lisa." ArtNews. 91 no.4 (April 1992): 50.

---. "Taking Mona Lisa's Temperature." Art News. 90 no.7 (September 1991): 98-101.

"DaVinci and the Mona Lisa." Scientific American. 273 no.3 (1995):10.

Drevet, P. "Testing the Smile of the Mona Lisa: Portraits and Self-Portraits by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt." Nouvelle revue Francaise. No.546-547 (July-August 1998): 129-137.

Folliard, Edward T. "Escorting Mona Lisa to America." National Geographic. 123 no.6 (June 1963): n.a.

Freedman, Luba. "The "Blurred" horizon in Leonardo's Paintings." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Ser. 6. vol 129 (May/June 1997): 181-194.

--. "Raphael's Perception of the Mona Lisa." Gazette Des Beaux-Arts. 114 no.1450 (1989): 169-182.

Goode, Stephen. "Mona Lisa Grinding Her Teeth Beneath Her Smile." Insight on the News. 15 no.37 (October 4-11 1999): 4.

Harma, J. "Portrait of a Lady: Description and Ekphrasis (Leonardo da Vinci, La Gioconda, Mona Lisa). Neuphilogische Mitteilungen. 101 no. 2 (2000): 177-184.

Harriss, J.A. "Seeking 'Mona Lisa' (Leonardo da Vinci's Masterpiece as the Symbol of Art and the Inspiration for Kitch." Smithsonian. 30 no. 2 (May 1999): 54+.

Herding, Klaus. "Freud's Leonardo: A Discussion of Recent Psychoanalytic Theories." American Imago. 57 no.4 (Winter 2000): 339-368.

Hochfield, S. "Too Hot to Handle: The case for Restoring the Mona Lisa." ArtNews. 93 no.7 (September 1994): 154-159.

Jermanok, Stephen. "Deciphering the Hand of Leonardo." Art and Antiques. 19 (November 1996): 59-64.

Kemp, Martin. "Lisa's Laws." Nature. 389 no. 6653 (October 23, 1997):799.

LaFarge, Antoinette. "The Bearded Lady and the Shaven Man: Mona Lisa, Meet Mona/Leo." Leonardo. 29 no. 5 (1996):379+.

Lartigue, P. "Apollinaire and Marcel Duchamps: Making Fun of the Mona Lisa." Infini. no.61 (Spring 1998): 114-115.

McKelway, Margaret. "The Picture Perfect Crime." National Geographic World. no. 256 (December 1996):24-27.

"Mona Lisa Finally Gets Her Own Digs." U.S. News and World Report. 128 no.3 (January 24, 2000): 33.

Richardson, John. "Picasso Among Theives." Vanity fair. 56 no.12 (December 1993): 198-205+.

Rilke, R.M. "The Landscape Behind the Mona Lisa." Architecture D Aujouard Hui. 218 (December 1981):n.a.

Ryskamp, J.H. "Obscured Original." Artnews. 93 no.9 (November 1994): 25.

Sassoon, Don.. "Mona Lisa: The Best-Known Girl in the Whole Wide World." History Workshop Journal. no. 51 (Spring 2001): 1-18.

---. "Smile! Your on Canvas-Donald Sassoon on the Mona Lisa as a Plaything of the Mass Market." New Statesman. 14 no.675 (September 24, 2001): 40-42.

Schwartz, L.F. "Leonardo's Mona Lisa." Art and Antiques. (January 1987): n.a.

---. "Morphing the Three Faces of the Mona Lisa: The Decision Making Steps Leonardo Used to Create His Mona Lisa." Computers and Graphics. 19 no.4 (July- August 1995): 529-539.

Smith, W. "Observations on the Mona Lisa Landscape." Art Bulletin. 67 no.2 (1985): n.a.

Sugameli, G. et al. "Mona Lisa." Smithsonian. 30 no.4 (July 1999): 18.

"Takeaway Art: Fine Art as Merchandise…." Arts review. (May 1997): 60+.

Tallman, Susan. "Dead and Alive." Arts Magazine. 66 no.6 (February 1992):13-14.

Z Iner, Frank. "Leonardo's Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo." Gazette des Beaux Artes. Ser.6 vol.121 (March 1993):115-138.

BOOKS - DRAMA/FICTION
Benvente, Jacinto. The Smile of Mona Lisa: A Play in One Act. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1915.

De Firenze, Rina. Mystery of the Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci's Greatest Painting. Hastings House, 1996.

Mayfield, Sara. Mona Lisa: The Woman in the Portrait. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1974.

Noah, Robert. The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa. New York: St. Martin Press, 1998.

CHILDRENS BOOKS
Cooper, Jacqueline. Angus and the Mona Lisa. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shephard, 1981.

Galli, Letizia. Mona Lisa: The Secret of the Smile. New York:Doubleday, 1996.

Hayes, Sheila. Me and My Mona Lisa Smile. New York: Elsevier/Nelson Books, 1981.

Hutchins, Pat. The Mona Lisa Mystery. Hampton:Chivers North America, 1997.

Mayhew, James. Katie and the Mona Lisa. New York: Orchard Books, 1999.

Verleyen, Cyriel and Henry Branton. The Theft of the Mona Lisa. New York: Crowell, 1971.

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