All 50 Uses of
Mona Lisa
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Despite the estimated five days it would take a visitor to properly appreciate the 65,300 pieces of art in this building, most tourists chose an abbreviated experience Langdon referred to as "Louvre Lite"—a full sprint through the museum to see the three most famous objects: the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory.†
Chpt 3
- The Mona Lisa!†
Chpt 19-20
- The Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 21-22
- "My grandfather probably created this Mona Lisa anagram long ago," Sophie said, glancing up at Langdon.†
Chpt 21-22 *
- The Mona Lisa!†
Chpt 21-22
- Was she supposed to visit the Mona Lisa?†
Chpt 21-22
- He easily could have visited the Mona Lisa before he died.†
Chpt 21-22
- 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.†
Chpt 21-22
- She had seen pictures of the Mona Lisa in books and didn't like it at all.†
Chpt 21-22
- After everything she'd heard about the Mona Lisa, she felt as if she were approaching royalty.†
Chpt 21-22
- She looked back at the Mona Lisa and shook her head.†
Chpt 21-22
- To the Mona Lisa?†
Chpt 21-22
- I think my grandfather may have left me a message at the Mona Lisa—some kind of clue as to who killed him.†
Chpt 21-22
- "As strange as it may sound," Sophie said, "I think he wants me to get to the Mona Lisa before anyone else does."†
Chpt 21-22
- Saunière's clever anagrammatic message was still on his mind, and Langdon wondered what Sophie would find at the Mona Lisa… if anything.†
Chpt 21-22
- Sophie arrived breathless outside the large wooden doors of the Salle des Etats—the room that housed the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 23-24
- The Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 23-24
- Slowly, as if moving underwater, Langdon turned his head and gazed through the reddish haze toward the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 23-24
- The fleur-de-lis… the flower of Lisa… the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 23-24
- Despite her monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches—smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.†
Chpt 25-26
- Since taking up residence in the Louvre, the Mona Lisa—or La Jaconde as they call her in France—had been stolen twice, most recently in 1911, when she disappeared from the Louvre's "satte impénétrable"—Le Salon Carre.†
Chpt 25-26
- Two years later, the Mona Lisa was discovered hidden in the false bottom of a trunk in a Florence hotel room.†
Chpt 25-26
- The Mona Lisa was still twenty yards ahead when Sophie turned on the black light, and the bluish crescent of penlight fanned out on the floor in front of them.†
Chpt 25-26
- The Mona Lisa's status as the most famous piece of art in the world, Langdon knew, had nothing to do with her enigmatic smile.†
Chpt 25-26
- Quite simply, the Mona Lisa was famous because Leonardo da Vinci claimed she was his finest accomplishment.†
Chpt 25-26
- Even so, many art historians suspected Da Vinci's reverence for the Mona Lisa had nothing to do with its artistic mastery.†
Chpt 25-26
- The Mona Lisa was, in fact, one of the world's most documented inside jokes.†
Chpt 25-26
- Most recently Langdon had shared the Mona Lisa's secret with a rather unlikely group—a dozen inmates at the Essex County Penitentiary.†
Chpt 25-26
- Standing at an overhead projector in a darkened penitentiary library, Langdon had shared the Mona Lisa's secret with the prisoners attending class, men whom he found surprisingly engaged—rough, but sharp.†
Chpt 25-26
- "You may notice," Langdon told them, walking up to the projected image of the Mona Lisa on the library wall, "that the background behind her face is uneven."†
Chpt 25-26
- By lowering the countryside on the left, Da Vinci made Mona Lisa look much larger from the left side than from the right side.†
Chpt 25-26
- Because Da Vinci was a big fan of feminine principles, he made Mona Lisa look more majestic from the left than the right.†
Chpt 25-26
- Is it true that the Mona Lisa is a picture of Da Vinci in drag?†
Chpt 25-26
- 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.†
Chpt 25-26
- Whatever Da Vinci was up to," Langdon said, "his Mona Lisa is neither male nor female.†
Chpt 25-26
- You sure that's not just some Harvard bullshit way of saying Mona Lisa is one ugly chick.†
Chpt 25-26
- "Mona Lisa… holy crap," somebody gasped.†
Chpt 25-26
- Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female.†
Chpt 25-26
- And that, my friends, is Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa's knowing smile.†
Chpt 25-26
- "My grandfather was here," Sophie said, dropping suddenly to her knees, now only ten feet from the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 25-26
- Jacques Saunière had indeed paid a visit to the Mona Lisa before he died.†
Chpt 25-26
- Quickly striding the final few steps to the Mona Lisa, she illuminated the floor directly in front of the painting.†
Chpt 25-26
- At that moment, Langdon saw a faint purple glimmer on the protective glass before the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 25-26
- On the glass, six words glowed in purple, scrawled directly across the Mona Lisa's face.†
Chpt 25-26
- The text seemed to hover in space, casting a jagged shadow across Mona Lisa's mysterious smile.†
Chpt 27-28
- Sophie looked baffled in the glow of the message scrawled across the Mona Lisa's face.†
Chpt 27-28
- Security warden Claude Grouard simmered with rage as he stood over his prostrate captive in front of the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 29-30
- As Grouard inched backward, he could see the woman across the room raising her UV light and scrutinizing a large painting that hung on the far side of the Salle des Etats, directly opposite the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 29-30
- When Sophie was a little girl, no trip to the Mona Lisa had been complete without her grandfather dragging her across the room to see this second painting.†
Chpt 29-30
- She pictured the message scrawled on the protective glass of the Mona Lisa.†
Chpt 29-30
Definition:
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(Mona Lisa) perhaps the most famous art piece in history; Leonardo da Vinci's painting of a woman who is often described as having an "enigmatic smile"