A bastard boy, son of a Florentine notary ... perhaps he intervened but it was completed by others. It's like the Mona Lisa of the Prado, which is a wonderful, beautiful work, and surely from ...

When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris, the art critic heaved an enormous sigh of relief. Finally, he reflected ...