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unusual facts about Gioconda's Smile


Gioconda's Smile

Without realising it, I'd come to a stop outside Rizzoli's Bookshop and in the display window, exactly facing me, was a book about da Vinci with the Gioconda on the cover.


A Woman's Vengeance

A Woman's Vengeance (1948) is a film directed by Zoltán Korda, with a screenplay by Aldous Huxley based on his short story "The Gioconda Smile", and starring Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Rachel Kempson, and Mildred Natwick.

Giuseppe Campora

His discography includes recordings of La forza del destino (1952), La Gioconda (1952), Madama Butterfly (with Renata Tebaldi, 1952), Simon Boccanegra (with Victoria de los Ángeles, Tito Gobbi and Boris Christoff, 1957), Tosca (with Tebaldi and Enzo Mascherini, 1952) and La traviata (1952).

La Gioconda

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Riccardo Nobili

In 1938, he painted a portrait of Gioconda Mary Hulton (1887–1940) found at Attingham Park in England.


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