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Da Vinci Code and Art

Fiction:

Mr. Brown says it is Mary Magdalene seated to the right of Jesus, not John the Apostle, in Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting, “The Last Supper.”

Fact:

In his own “Treatise on Painting,” Leonardo Da Vinci says the classic “student” should be shown as youthful, long-haired, and clean-shaven. He was true to this approach in his depiction of St. John, as the youngest of the apostles. Neither his contemporary artists nor reputable art historians have doubted his original intention.

Fiction:

The Da Vinci Code says Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" was an androgynous self-portrait whose title is a mocking anagram of two Egyptian fertility deities—Amon and L’isa.

Fact:

It was commonly known at the time of the painting and today, that the "Mona Lisa" portrays a real woman, Madonna Lisa, the wife of Francesco de Bartolomeo del Giocondo.

Summary:

There is no historical evidence Leonardo Da Vinci used his paintings to reveal secrets or protest traditional beliefs.


  • Dan Brown's Da Vinci

    IS FICTION GET OVER YOURSELVES. seriously people, we find this book in the FICTION section, not non-fiction. it is a story to please the mind, not a book of absolute truths.

    62%  Voted for by Kazrith, Soulmate143, I try, jojo12790, me alone.
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  • And even if it did...

    What does Leonardo know... He live 1500 years after Jesus, he wasn't there at the last supper. Even if he did believe some of the creepy stuff that Dan Brown tries to pull out of his painting so what?

    25%  Voted for by Makessenseright, I try.
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  • I really have to ask

    Do you actually think that Dan Brown made this book out to be of truth? do you think that it may just be a work of amazing fiction?

    but you have to admit, if it were all true and that just happened to happen and many people really wouldnt have had to die.

    course i am a religion hater (not a god hater, they are aways confused) and something like this plays right into my life long philosophy in the realms of churches.

    Voted for by Kazrith.
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