The Mona Lisa, the most famous and precious oil painting in the history of art, is now in the Louvre in Paris, numbered 779. Of the 6,000 famous paintings owned by the Louvre so far, only this painting is placed in a special fixed cement box container, which is covered with three layers of bullet-proof glass with a spacing of 25 cm. Every day, countless people come to stop in front of her just to see the mysterious smile of the legendary Mona Lisa. Why does Mona Lisa Smile become the most famous painting in the world? Really, as Wilde said, is the woman's smile in the painting revealing an unknown secret to people? What does da Vinci, the master of argot, imply in this painting? Why did Leonardo da Vinci take this painting after he almost stopped writing? Why didn't this painting be handed over to the buyer after it was completed? Why has this painting remained in Leonardo da Vinci's hands for the past ten years? 1503, Florence during the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci began to create this masterpiece handed down from ancient times. It took him 10 years to finish this oil painting until 15 13. He left quite a lot of notes in his life, but he didn't find any records about this painting, and the master of the secret code didn't leave any clues between the paintings. Who is Mona Lisa? What's the secret behind the mysterious smile? In her novel Mona Lisa's Smile, Jenny Carlo Gatis gives the boldest, most incredible and most reasonable answer ever. The mystery novel, a popular history book in 2006, has sold the copyrights of more than 10 countries around the world only by the synopsis, and has sold the copyrights of nearly 20 countries, such as Britain, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia, Greece, South Korea and China, and its power far exceeds that of The Da Vinci Code. This is a novel that challenges intelligence. Since leonardo da vinci's studio was newly discovered by Italian archaeologists in Santissima Anonziata monastery in the center of Florence on June 5438+1October 65438+1October 2005, Janie Carlo Gettys has constructed a spiral maze that really exists in history for us. Different from ordinary mystery novels, in Mona Lisa's Smile, Janie Kalogueti adopts the first-person narrative method, allowing the secret protagonist, Mona Lisa herself, to lead us to explore in this maze of intrigue and lust. The Mona Lisa, who calls herself Miss Lisa in this novel, takes us back to Florence in the Renaissance, where Leonardo da Vinci lived. This is not Florence, which we are familiar with and occupies a place in the history of art as the birthplace of the Renaissance, but Florence shrouded in the shadow of cross and blood in the historical truth. Mysterious astrology, the belief supported by the cathedral, the love-hate struggle between nobles and family power, and the great light of art lurks over the city at the same time. The two largest families in Florence-the medici family family and the Patches family-have been fighting for twenty years. The story begins at 1478, when a long-planned murder of medici family was planned by Patch of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Flowers. As the ruler of Florence and a close friend of medici family, Leonardo da Vinci also participated in this conspiracy. He witnessed the murder process and drew a portrait of the murderer with the artist's amazing memory. But in order to protect the two people he loves, a man and a woman, he has never published this portrait. Until he met the Mona Lisa, he promised to paint a portrait of the girl before she was born. In the process of painting this portrait, he found that the plot of Florence never stopped. In order to protect his loved ones, he decided to reveal the secret through the portrait of Mona Lisa. With Mona Lisa's own narrative, we find that the painter sitting in front of her has a mysterious connection with Mona Lisa and her mother. The mysterious life story of Mona Lisa also contains unknown secrets-talented painter Da Vinci, Mona Lisa's mother Anna, giuliano of medici family, a man and a woman fell in love with another man. Mona Lisa is the product of this erotic entanglement. Behind her portrait, there is a secret that connects the past and the future ... "compromise"