Jean-Pierre Isbouts was born on 1954 and is a professor in the Social Sciences PhD program of Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California, and an archaeologist, author, screenwriter, director, and producer of works addressing various historical periods, particularly the time period of Jesus and that of Renaissance and post-Renaissance art.
12 Facts About Jean-Pierre Isbouts
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts received his PhD from Columbia University in New York, writing his dissertation on the American Beaux-Arts architecture firm of Carrere and Hastings.
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In 1983, Jean-Pierre Isbouts wrote and directed one of the first documentary works specifically created for the LaserDisc format, and "the first successful commercial videodisc to index and show art works".
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In 1995, having formed the production company Pantheon in Santa Monica, California, Jean-Pierre Isbouts extended his interests to the historical backdrop of Jesus, directing a four-hour "multimedia presentation of New Testament stories from the birth of Jesus to his Crucifixion and Resurrection" narrated by Charlton Heston, the first production of the series, Charlton Heston's Voyage through the Bible.
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In 2008, Jean-Pierre Isbouts directed Operation Valkyrie: The Stauffenberg Plot to Kill Hitler, on Operation Valkyrie, which was noted as showing "the advantages offered by a film treatment of a topic" as compared to accounts in print.
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In November 2012, Jean-Pierre Isbouts again returned to Biblical history, publishing In the Footsteps of Jesus with National Geographic.
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In 2016, Jean-Pierre Isbouts published two additional books, Archaeology of the Bible: The Greatest Discoveries From Genesis to the Roman Era, with National Geographic; and Ten Prayers that Changed the World.
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In October 2013, Jean-Pierre Isbouts published another book examining a Renaissance art theme, The Mona Lisa Myth, examining the history and events behind the Mona Lisa in the Louvre and the Isleworth Mona Lisa, endorsing the two-Mona Lisa theory and confirming the latter's attribution to Leonardo.
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts described being "absolutely floored" by the quality of the preservation and the "intense luminosity of the face".
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts presented a theory that the Isleworth Mona Lisa is an earlier work by Leonardo, and is the original portrait of the Florentine subject, "while the Mona Lisa in the Louvre is an allegorical representation of the Madonna Annunziata".
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts further noted that "24 of 27 recognised Leonardo scholars have agreed this is a Leonardo".
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That same year, Jean-Pierre Isbouts edited and wrote a section of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: New Perspectives, further exploring the evidence of Leonardo having painted the Isleworth Mona Lisa.