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The Da Vinci Code is a suspenseful thriller written by Dan Brown. ... The crime, which is surrounded with mysterious clues and symbolic code that must be broken to expose the truth, brings together Robert Langdon, a professor of symbolism at Harvard, and the victim’s granddaughter, a police cryptologist named Sophie Nevue. ... Philosophy is the love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Da Vinci Code is filled with artistic elements. From the name of the book you get the sense that the author is paying homage to Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a Florentine artist, and considered one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, who was also renowned a painter, architect, sculpture, scientist, and engineer. ...
Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in a small called Vinci, near Florence. ... ” It has been said that Leonardo Da Vinci lived ahead of his time because most of his theories were revolutionary. Da Vinci actually anticipated many discoveries of the modern world. ...
In The Da Vinci Code, Brown uses the works of Leonardo such as the Vitruvian Man, the Last Supper, the Madonna on the Rocks, and etc in a plot in which Leonardo deliberately left codes in his works. ... The Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere, a member of the Priory of Sion and grandfather of Sophie, left clues which involved the work of Leonardo Da Vinci for Robert and Sophie. ...
The Da Vinci Code is mostly centered on the idea of Gnosticism. ... Knights who claimed to be ‘searching for the chalice’ were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned non-believers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine. ... The Da Vinci Code is a novel and hence a work of fiction and nothing more. ...
The Da Vinci Code touches on interesting topics such as religion, philosophy, ancient Geek culture, and art. Many of Browning statements are factual and can be proven such as the painting of Leonardo Da Vinci or the names of the buildings in France. ... The difference with the fact and the fiction is that the facts are things that were proven and have a written documentation to prove it such as Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings, while the fictional area are the parts where Brown is makings claims with nothing to back up his statement. ... The Da Vinci Code New Work: Double Day, 2003.
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Approximate Word count = 2770
Approximate Pages = 11.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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