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  • Like a collector finding an undiscovered Da Vinci, like a mother looking into the face of her newborn child.†   (source)
  • The sculptures of Michelangelo and the fictional inventions of Da Vinci made real.†   (source)
  • He was also equipped with a compass, a telescope, and several strange maps that he had traced himself based on various theories of Leonardo da Vinci and on the polar knowledge of the Incas.†   (source)
  • Half a dozen easels displayed hand-drawn diagrams for buildings and machines that looked like Leonardo da Vinci sketches.†   (source)
  • She put the hardcover back, slid it in beside The Da Vinci Code.†   (source)
  • To Matron the field looked static, yet alive, like a painting by Titian or da Vinci.†   (source)
  • I would as soon destroy da Vinci.†   (source)
  • I spread her arms and legs like the Da Vinci drawing of the naked dude inside the box, contained within the circle.†   (source)
  • Said I was no Leonardo Da Vinci and that bad art had to be punished.†   (source)
  • The Romantic movement of the 1820s brought back a yearning for narrow-waisted heroines like the ones in the novels of Sir Walter Scott (the Dan Brown of his day—though Sir Walter would not have dared dress a French heroine in a big sweater and black leggings, as Mr. Brown did poor Sophie Neveu inThe Da Vinci Code ), and corsets gained popularity while skirts became wider.†   (source)
  • It's why, in this country, Madonna can perform on a crucifix, and The Da Vinci Code was a bestseller.†   (source)
  • Some months earlier Salander had read an article in a Popular Science that someone had left behind at Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome, and she developed a vague fascination with the obscure topic of spherical astronomy.†   (source)
  • And now Jackie has brought Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece to America, where "Mona Mania" is about to break out.†   (source)
  • Nemo and I built the device based on designs conceived by Leonardo Da Vinci, and my first journey 'out' was when I met Aven's mother, Weena.†   (source)
  • Though everyone knows of Van Gogh and Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci, Ruth and I focused on twentieth-century American modern art, and many of the artists we met over the years created work that museums and other collectors later coveted.†   (source)
  • It's as though the Founders had read Nostradamus but didn't care to admit their frivolity, or perhaps studied the drawings of Da Vinci, who foresaw aircraft.†   (source)
  • "The Da Vinci Code?" the Gasman suggested.†   (source)
  • He cofounded Imagine Entertainment with longtime friend, director Ron Howard, and together they created blockbusters including The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, and Splash.†   (source)
  • That came to mind as I was viewing some of Da Vinci's anatomical drawings.†   (source)
  • The symbolism in Melencolia I is so complex it makes Leonardo da Vinci look overt.†   (source)
  • Meet me ....at Leonardo da Vinci Airport.†   (source)
  • The author of the pages—Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • Leonardo da Vinci Airport could only mean one thing.†   (source)
  • Saunière had created a life-sized replica of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous sketch.†   (source)
  • Leonardo da Vinci was better at it than anyone.†   (source)
  • Langdon held his breath as the X-33 spiraled into Rome's Leonardo da Vinci International Airport.†   (source)
  • I was raised by a man who worshipped Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • The images came faster now ....da Vinci's Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • —LEONARDO DA VINCI "Here's another," Teabing said, pointing to a different quote.†   (source)
  • They were invented by Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • was a perfect anagram of...Leonardo da Vinci!†   (source)
  • Throughout his entire life, Disney had been hailed as "the Modern-Day Leonardo da Vinci."†   (source)
  • —LEONARDO DA VINCI Sophie felt a little chill.†   (source)
  • Sophie looked again at the Da Vinci quote before her.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci lays it all out in the open in The Last Supper" Sophie scanned the work eagerly.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci, Botticelli, Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau...Jacques Saunière.†   (source)
  • Grouard screamed, frozen in horror as he watched the priceless Da Vinci stretching.†   (source)
  • "It's a matter of historical record," Teabing said, "and Da Vinci was certainly aware of that fact.†   (source)
  • But actually Da Vinci left a big clue that the painting was supposed to be androgynous.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci painted the horizon line on the left significantly lower than the right.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci had drawn up blueprints for hundreds of inventions he had never built.†   (source)
  • It doesn't take the brains of Da Vinci to guess what you saw.†   (source)
  • Is it true that the Mona Lisa is a picture of Da Vinci in drag?†   (source)
  • Oddly, Da Vinci appears to have forgotten to paint the Cup of Christ.†   (source)
  • "I understand your concerns," Langdon now said, "but Da Vinci never really practiced any dark arts.†   (source)
  • That particular sketch has always been my favorite Da Vinci work.†   (source)
  • Actually, this is a little trick Da Vinci played.†   (source)
  • According to my grandfather, the blueprints come from one of Da Vinci's secret diaries.†   (source)
  • Now, at last, the fresco has been cleaned down to Da Vinci's original layer of paint.†   (source)
  • Historians don't generally put it quite that way, but yes, Da Vinci was a homosexual.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci had always been an awkward subject for historians, especially in the Christian tradition.†   (source)
  • Although Da Vinci did as they requested, when he delivered the work, the group reacted with horror.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci actually exhumed corpses to measure the exact proportions of human bone structure.†   (source)
  • I can't put a bullet through a Da Vinci!†   (source)
  • Da Vinci...Fibonacci numbers...the pentacle.†   (source)
  • Designed from Da Vinci's diaries," Sophie said.†   (source)
  • And that, my friends, is Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa's knowing smile.†   (source)
  • We've only touched on Da Vinci today, but we'll be seeing a lot more of him this semester.†   (source)
  • You can see that Da Vinci was well aware of how Peter felt about Mary Magdalene.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci had been a cryptology pioneer, Sophie knew, although he was seldom given credit.†   (source)
  • Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female.†   (source)
  • Whatever Da Vinci was up to," Langdon said, "his Mona Lisa is neither male nor female.†   (source)
  • "Da Vinci?" he muttered, looking again at the canister.†   (source)
  • And Da Vinci's views on the New Testament?†   (source)
  • Da Vinci...Botticelli...Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci, however, eschewed mathematics and cryptology for a mechanical solution.†   (source)
  • Nobody understood better than Da Vinci the divine structure of the human body.†   (source)
  • I remember when I had ideas about eternal greatness, when I wanted to be Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • Their protection of da Vinci's masterpiece is extraordinary.†   (source)
  • This same gesture appears in three of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous encoded masterpieces—The Last Supper, Adoration of the Magi, and Saint John the Baptist.†   (source)
  • The Vatican Museum housed over 60,000 priceless pieces in 1,407 rooms-Michelangelo, da Vinci, Bernini, Botticelli.†   (source)
  • There was one, however, that particularly interested Dee: a harness that da Vinci claimed would allow a man to take to the air and fly like a bird.†   (source)
  • Looking out over Paris now, he began to imagine what it would be like to strap da Vinci's wings to his arms and sail out over the roofs.†   (source)
  • Meet me at Leonardo da Vinci Airport.†   (source)
  • They contain over 20,000 volumes and are rumored to hold such treasures as Leonardo da Vinci's missing diaries and even unpublished books of the Holy Bible.†   (source)
  • It was a weakness he'd discovered as an art student when the teacher informed the class that Leonardo da Vinci had gained his expertise in the human form by exhuming corpses and dissecting their musculature.†   (source)
  • Michelangelo, da Vinci, Raphael.†   (source)
  • Perched precariously on the upper stacks he found the fattest ledgers of all-those belonging to the masters of the Renaissance-Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Botticelli.†   (source)
  • It was all intertwined, a silent symphony echoing the deepest secrets of the Priory of Sion and Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • Saunière, it seemed, at every turn, was reinforcing his fondness for the dark and mischievous side of Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Langdon," Fache said, "certainly a man like yourself is aware that Leonardo da Vinci had a tendency toward the darker arts."†   (source)
  • The driver who collected Bishop Aringarosa from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport pulled up in a small, unimpressive black Fiat sedan.†   (source)
  • At that moment, at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, the jolt of tires hitting the runway startled Bishop Aringarosa from his slumber.†   (source)
  • Quite simply, the Mona Lisa was famous because Leonardo da Vinci claimed she was his finest accomplishment.†   (source)
  • In the bizarre underworld of modern Grail seekers, Leonardo da Vinci remained the quest's great enigma.†   (source)
  • The idea that the cryptex had been designed by Leonardo da Vinci—former Grand Master of the Priory of Sion—shone as another tantalizing indicator that this was indeed the Priory keystone.†   (source)
  • Once headed by Leonardo da Vinci?†   (source)
  • Gazing up at the large painting behind which she was partially ensconced, Sophie realized that Leonardo da Vinci, for the second time tonight, was there to help.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • A talented craftsman who spent hours in his wood and metal shop, Jacques Saunière enjoyed imitating master craftsmen—Fabergé, assorted cloisonne artisans, and the less artistic, but far more practical, Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • Cataloged under Number 4° lm1 249, the Dossiers Secrets had been authenticated by many specialists and incontrovertibly confirmed what historians had suspected for a long time: Priory Grand Masters included Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and, more recently, Jean Cocteau, the famous Parisian artist.†   (source)
  • DE SIGN—LES NAUTONIERS/GRAND MASTERS JEAN DE GISORS 1188-1220 MARIE DE SAINT-CLAIR 1220-1266 GUILLAUME DE GlSORS 1266-1307 EDOUARD DE BAR 1307-1336 JEANNE DE BAR 1336-1351 JEAN DE SAINT-CLAIR 1351-1366 BLANCE D'EVREUX 1366-1398 NICOLAS FLAMEL 1398-1418 RENE D'ANJOU 1418-1480 IOLANDE DE BAR 1480-1483 SANDRO BOTTICELLI 1483-1510 LEONARDO DA VINCI 1510-1519 CONNETABLE DE BOURBON 1519-1527 FERDINAND DE GONZAQUE 1527-1575 LOUIS DE NEVERS 1575-1595 ROBERT FLUDD 1595-1637 J. VALENTIN ANDREA 1637-1654 ROBERT BOYLE 1654-1691 ISAAC NEWTON 1691-1727 CHARLES RADCLYFFE 1727-1746 CHARLES DE LORRAINE 1746-1780 MAXIMILIAN DE LORRAINE 1780-1801 CHARLES NODIER 1801-1844 VICTOR HUGO 1844-1885 CLAUD†   (source)
  • And, Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • Leonardo da Vinci!†   (source)
  • No. Da Vinci didn't do that too often.†   (source)
  • A feminine symbol of protection, the circle around the naked man's body completed Da Vinci's intended message—male and female harmony.†   (source)
  • The Da Vinci she had grabbed, much like the Mona Lisa, was notorious among art historians for its plethora of hidden pagan symbolism.†   (source)
  • Because Da Vinci is too smart for that.†   (source)
  • By lowering the countryside on the left, Da Vinci made Mona Lisa look much larger from the left side than from the right side.†   (source)
  • For centuries, men like Da Vinci, Botticelli, and Newton risked everything to protect the documents and carry out that charge.†   (source)
  • At first Langdon thought he could not read them because Da Vinci wrote his notebooks in an archaic Italian.†   (source)
  • The truth was that some anonymous painter had filled in Da Vinci's sketch like a paint-by-numbers years after Da Vinci's death.†   (source)
  • Because Da Vinci was a big fan of feminine principles, he made Mona Lisa look more majestic from the left than the right.†   (source)
  • And if we adjourn to the study, my friends, it would be my honor to show you Da Vinci's painting of her.†   (source)
  • Even so, many art historians suspected Da Vinci's reverence for the Mona Lisa had nothing to do with its artistic mastery.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci's veneration for this work, many claimed, stemmed from something far deeper: a hidden message in the layers of paint.†   (source)
  • Sophie explained that creating models of Da Vinci's inventions was one of her grandfather's bestloved hobbies.†   (source)
  • And finally, before I show you Da Vinci's paintings of the Holy Grail, I'd like you to take a quick look at this.†   (source)
  • The symbolism of the clues meshed too perfectly—the pentacle, The Vitruvian Man, Da Vinci, the goddess, and even the Fibonacci sequence.†   (source)
  • From Da Vinci's notebook on polemics and speculation," Teabing said, indicating one quote in particular.†   (source)
  • You will be shocked to learn what anomalies Da Vinci included here that most scholars either do not see or simply choose to ignore.†   (source)
  • Even Da Vinci's enormous output of breathtaking Christian art only furthered the artist's reputation for spiritual hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • All the Da Vinci and goddess symbolism?†   (source)
  • Da Vinci is talking about the Bible?†   (source)
  • In fact, Da Vinci painted the true Grail, which I will show you momentarily, but first we must speak of the Bible.†   (source)
  • Sophie glanced at the art book before her, eager to move on and see the Da Vinci painting of the Holy Grail.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Even a cursory glance through Da Vinci's journals revealed why the luminary was as notorious for his lack of follow-through as he was famous for his brilliance.†   (source)
  • You will join the ranks of the great men you admire—Da Vinci, Botticelli, Newton—each of whom would have been honored to be in your shoes right now.†   (source)
  • Maybe Da Vinci's plethora of tantalizing clues was nothing but an empty promise left behind to frustrate the curious and bring a smirk to the face of his knowing Mona Lisa.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Having listened to Saunière's conversations for months now, the Teacher had heard the Grand Master mention this famous knight on occasion, expressing esteem almost matching that he held for Da Vinci.†   (source)
  • Sophie was staring at the most famous fresco of all time—The Last Supper—Da Vinci's legendary painting from the wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie near Milan.†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly told her about works by Da Vinci, Botticelli, Poussin, Bernini, Mozart, and Victor Hugo that all whispered of the quest to restore the banished sacred feminine.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • For this reason, Grail enthusiasts still pored over Da Vinci's art and diaries in hopes of unearthing a hidden clue as to the Grail's current location.†   (source)
  • As their armored truck roared down the highway, Sophie explained to Langdon that the cryptex had been Da Vinci's solution to the dilemma of sending secure messages over long distances.†   (source)
  • Historians still debated whether Da Vinci wrote this way simply to amuse himself or to keep people from peering over his shoulder and stealing his ideas, but the point was moot.†   (source)
  • Still others claimed that X rays of the Mona Lisa revealed she originally had been painted wearing a lapis lazuli pendant of Isis—a detail Da Vinci purportedly later decided to paint over.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In Saunière's case, the curator had received a dinner invitation to Château Villette to discuss the possibility of Teabing's funding a new Da Vinci Wing at the Louvre.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Seracini had revealed beyond any doubt that while the Adoration's gray-green sketched underdrawing was indeed Da Vinci's work, the painting itself was not.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Most recently, of course, had been the earthshaking discovery that Da Vinci's famed Adoration of the Magi was hiding a dark secret beneath its layers of paint.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci was in a secret society?†   (source)
  • The era of Grand Master Da Vinci.†   (source)
  • A little Da Vinci inside joke.†   (source)
  • The bizarre scene Da Vinci had painted included an awkwardly posed Virgin Mary sitting with Baby Jesus, John the Baptist, and the Angel Uriel on a perilous outcropping of rocks.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Knowing the guard would never actually shoot either of them, Sophie now turned her attention back to the matter at hand, scanning the entire area around one masterpiece in particular—another Da Vinci.†   (source)
  • The eighteen folios—now known as Leonardo's Codex Leicester after their famous owner, the Earl of Leicester—were all that remained of one of Leonardo's most fascinating notebooks: essays and drawings outlining Da Vinci's progressive theories on astronomy, geology, archaeology, and hydrology.†   (source)
  • Photographs taken with infrared reflectography and X ray suggested that this rogue painter, while filling in Da Vinci's sketched study, had made suspicious departures from the underdrawing...as if to subvert Da Vinci's true intention.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci's original commission for Madonna of the Rocks had come from an organization known as the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, which needed a painting for the centerpiece of an altar triptych in their church of San Francesco in Milan.†   (source)
  • Langdon's students were always amused to learn that Da Vinci eventually mollified the confraternity by painting them a second, "watered-down" version of Madonna of the Rocks in which everyone was arranged in a more orthodox manner.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci did as he pleased.†   (source)
  • One of Jacques Saunière's favorite pastimes was bringing Da Vinci's more obscure brainstorms to life—timepieces, water pumps, cryptexes, and even a fully articulated model of a medieval French knight, which now stood proudly on the desk in his office.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Designed by Da Vinci in 1495 as an outgrowth of his earliest anatomy and kinesiology studies, the internal mechanism of the robot knight possessed accurate joints and tendons, and was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck while opening and closing an anatomically correct jaw.†   (source)
  • Whatever it is will appear, even later, in colored plates, in books; like the work of Leonardo da Vinci, whose studies of hands and feet and hair and dead people I pore over.†   (source)
  • The passionate crowds who will surround da Vinci's painting are similar to the throngs who scream for JFK and Jackie on their travels around the world.†   (source)
  • They had run scientific accounts of the history of aviation in the Sunday Family Magazine supplement, with pictures ranging from Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of flying machines to the latest bomber; with the added attraction of Icarus writhing in scarlet flames, his nude body blue-green, his wax wings yellow and the smoke purple; also of a leprous hag with flaming eyes and a crystal ball, who had predicted in the XIth century that man would fly; also of bats, vampires and werewolves.†   (source)
  • An idealization of some such a man as Leonardo da Vinci would be a more valuable beacon to you at present.†   (source)
  • She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us, The things are assuredly not of this life; no woman of Leonardo's could have anything so vulgar as a "story."†   (source)
  • Oh, Lord, what a pleasure it used to be to dream I might be a really great dictator or writer or religious or political leader—and now even a Leonardo da Vinci or Lorenzo de Medici couldn't be a real old-fashioned bolt in the world.†   (source)
  • The various schools of the old masters were represented by a Raphael Madonna, a Virgin by Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph by Correggio, a woman by Titian, an adoration of the Magi by Veronese, an assumption of the Virgin by Murillo, a Holbein portrait, a monk by Velazquez, a martyr by Ribera, a village fair by Rubens, two Flemish landscapes by Teniers, three little genre paintings by Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two canvases by Gericault and Prud'hon, plus seascapes by Backhuysen and Vernet.†   (source)
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