All 50 Uses of
Leonardo da Vinci
in
The Da Vinci Code
- In 1975 Paris's Bibliothèque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci.†
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- Saunière had created a life-sized replica of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous sketch.†
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- Considered the most anatomically correct drawing of its day, Da Vinci's The Vitruvian Man had become a modern-day icon of culture, appearing on posters, mouse pads, and T-shirts around the world.†
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- Da Vinci.†
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- In his final moments of life, the curator had stripped off his clothing and arranged his body in a clear image of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.†
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- A feminine symbol of protection, the circle around the naked man's body completed Da Vinci's intended message—male and female harmony.†
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- Langdon," Fache said, "certainly a man like yourself is aware that Leonardo da Vinci had a tendency toward the darker arts."†
Chpt 8
- Langdon was surprised by Fache's knowledge of Da Vinci, and it certainly went a long way toward explaining the captain's suspicions about devil worship.†
Chpt 8
- Da Vinci had always been an awkward subject for historians, especially in the Christian tradition.†
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- Moreover, the artist's eerie eccentricities projected an admittedly demonic aura: Da Vinci exhumed corpses to study human anatomy; he kept mysterious journals in illegible reverse handwriting; he believed he possessed the alchemic power to turn lead into gold and even cheat God by creating an elixir to postpone death; and his inventions included horrific, never-before-imagined weapons of war and torture.†
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- Even Da Vinci's enormous output of breathtaking Christian art only furthered the artist's reputation for spiritual hypocrisy.†
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- Accepting hundreds of lucrative Vatican commissions, Da Vinci painted Christian themes not as an expression of his own beliefs but rather as a commercial venture—a means of funding a lavish lifestyle.†
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- Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him.†
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- "I understand your concerns," Langdon now said, "but Da Vinci never really practiced any dark arts.†
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- I was just thinking that Saunière shared a lot of spiritual ideologies with Da Vinci, including a concern over the Church's elimination of the sacred feminine from modern religion.†
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- Maybe, by imitating a famous Da Vinci drawing, Saunière was simply echoing some of their shared frustrations with the modern Church's demonization of the goddess.†
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- That particular sketch has always been my favorite Da Vinci work.†
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- All the Da Vinci and goddess symbolism?†
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- The symbolism of the clues meshed too perfectly—the pentacle, The Vitruvian Man, Da Vinci, the goddess, and even the Fibonacci sequence.†
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- Da Vinci… Fibonacci numbers… the pentacle.†
Chpt 19-20
- He pulled up another slide—a pale yellow parchment displaying Leonardo da Vinci's famous male nude—The Vitruvian Man—named for Marcus Vitruvius, the brilliant Roman architect who praised the Divine Proportion in his text De Architectura.†
Chpt 19-20
- Nobody understood better than Da Vinci the divine structure of the human body.†
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- Da Vinci actually exhumed corpses to measure the exact proportions of human bone structure.†
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- Over the next half hour, Langdon showed them slides of artwork by Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Da Vinci, and many others, demonstrating each artist's intentional and rigorous adherence to the Divine Proportion in the layout of his compositions.†
Chpt 19-20
- We've only touched on Da Vinci today, but we'll be seeing a lot more of him this semester.†
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- There in the bowels of the Louvre… with images of PHI and Da Vinci swirling through his mind, Robert Langdon suddenly and unexpectedly deciphered Saunière's code.†
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- Oh, lame saint! was a perfect anagram of… Leonardo da Vinci!†
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- Leonardo da Vinci!†
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- As Sophie recalled her first childhood visit to the Denon Wing, she realized that if her grandfather had a secret to tell her, few places on earth made a more apt rendezvous than Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.†
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- Leonardo da Vinci was better at it than anyone.†
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- At that moment, at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, the jolt of tires hitting the runway startled Bishop Aringarosa from his slumber.†
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- And, Leonardo da Vinci.†
Chpt 23-24
- Da Vinci was in a secret society?†
Chpt 23-24
- Da Vinci presided over the Priory between 1510 and 1519 as the brotherhood's Grand Master, which might help explain your grandfather's passion for Leonardo's work.†
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- Once headed by Leonardo da Vinci?†
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- It was all intertwined, a silent symphony echoing the deepest secrets of the Priory of Sion and Leonardo da Vinci.†
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- Painted on a poplar wood panel, her ethereal, mist-filled atmosphere was attributed to Da Vinci's mastery of the sfumato style, in which forms appear to evaporate into one another.†
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- Quite simply, the Mona Lisa was famous because Leonardo da Vinci claimed she was his finest accomplishment.†
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- Even so, many art historians suspected Da Vinci's reverence for the Mona Lisa had nothing to do with its artistic mastery.†
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- Da Vinci's veneration for this work, many claimed, stemmed from something far deeper: a hidden message in the layers of paint.†
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- Da Vinci painted the horizon line on the left significantly lower than the right.†
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- No. Da Vinci didn't do that too often.†
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- Actually, this is a little trick Da Vinci played.†
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- By lowering the countryside on the left, Da Vinci made Mona Lisa look much larger from the left side than from the right side.†
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- A little Da Vinci inside joke.†
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- Because Da Vinci was a big fan of feminine principles, he made Mona Lisa look more majestic from the left than the right.†
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- Historians don't generally put it quite that way, but yes, Da Vinci was a homosexual.†
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- Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female.†
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- Is it true that the Mona Lisa is a picture of Da Vinci in drag?†
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- Da Vinci was a prankster, and computerized analysis of the Mona Lisa and Da Vinci's self-portraits confirm some startling points of congruency in their faces.†
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Definition:
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(Leonardo da Vinci) Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, scientist, and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519); painter of The Last Supper and Mona Lisa