The Da Vinci Code Online

Warned by the critics not to expect too much, I turned up last night to watch the movie, The Da Vinci Code. Positives Almost full marks for use of paintings in the movie. Stand out scenes in this regard included the flight of Sauniere in the Louvre and the room used for the conference of [...]

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Leonardo Da Vinci’s mural painting, “The Last Supper”, first makes its appearance in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, in Sir Leigh Teabing’s home. Teabing takes “La Storia di Leonardo”, a fictional art book, and opens up at a representation of the famous mural. He later takes Neveu through to his study to examine an [...]

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Teabing tells Sophie Neveu that the Bible as we know it today was collated by pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great. “He was a lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed, too weak to protest. In Constantine’s day, Rome’s official religion was sun worship – the cult of Sol Invictus, or the Invincible Sun [...]

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