Hints and tips:
...Lisa, her mother and three half-sisters decamped to a seedy flat in Clapham....
...“No, no, because Napoleon has been settled with treaties at the end of the empire in 1815.”...
...Potsdam’s “Mona Lisa”?...
...He is speaking at the company’s modest offices in Paris, which has just a handful of rooms and a wonky unframed “Mona Lisa” on the bathroom door....
...Art adviser Lisa Schiff, who works with Leonardo DiCaprio among others, says: “There are a lot of innovative mechanisms to ensure top material and the successful sale of a work, but that sale isn’t always...
...Excavations, public mummy unwrappings, and the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone followed Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt in 1798....
...As the FT’s reviewer Lisa Jardine wrote, it “reads less like a biography than a 19th-century novel”....
...When the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911, more people turned up to stare at the empty space on the Louvre’s wall than used to visit the picture itself....
...Peruggia had once seen a picture of Napoleon’s troops carting stolen Italian art to France....
...Napoleon had called the Channel a mere “ditch that will be crossed when someone has the boldness to try it”....
...; “Looters Will Be Shot survivors Will Be Shot Again”; “Lisa + Donnie R OK”; “Hey Katrina!! That’s All You Got? You Big Sissy!! We Will Be Back!!”...
...Lisa Appignanesi’s ‘Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present’ is published by Virago...
...At The Gilded Seal’s heart is a mystery leading to Napoleon’s obsession with Da Vinci’s masterwork....
...Tatjana Gazdik’s impish, glittering Lisa is mirrored well by Karen Rettinghaus’s charmingly sincere Mi....
...Napoleon's legacy After the Mona Lisa, David's portrayal of Napoleon's coronation is the most popular painting in the Louvre....
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