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   Leonardo da Vinci

   Leonardo chose to paint an apocryphal moment of the infancy of Christ when the Infant John the Baptist, in protection of an angel, met the Holy Family on the road to Egypt. ... Daniel Arasse in Leonardo da Vinci discusses the possibility that Leonardo may have painted the figure with eyebrows which were subsequently removed.
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   Criticisms of The Da Vinci Code

   The attitude that Brown has towards pre-Nicean Christians is that "until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless." ... The contention that the "Mona Lisa" was painted by Leonardo as a self-portrait has been officially dismissed, as Mona Lisa's historical identity has recently been discovered to be Lisa del Giocondo (however, this was unknown to be a certainty prior to The Da Vinci Code's publishing) despite Lillian Schwartz of Bell Labs, and Digby Quested of the Maudsley Hospital in London having used "morphing" techniques to argue that the resemblance to Leonardo's alleged self-portrait is striking.
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   Cultural depictions of Leonardo da Vinci

   David Davalos's 2002 play Daedalus tells a fantasized story of Leonardo's time as a military engineer in the service of Cesare Borgia. ... However, upon further examination, they discover that the painting is actually worthless because it was painted by an impostor, Leonard da Vinci "Mahoney".
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   The Da Vinci Code

   Leonardo was a member of the Priory of Sion and knew the secret of the Grail. ... ↑ History vs The Da Vinci Code
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   Leonardo da Vinci's personal life

   Among his earliest significant known paintings are an Annunciation in the Uffizi, the angel that he painted as a collaboration with Verrocchio in the Baptism of Christ, and a small predella of the Annunciation to go beneath an altarpiece by Lorenzo di Credi. ... Leonardo da Vinci
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   The Da Vinci Code (film)

   Many of these relate to Leonardo Da Vinci's art, and the pair find a key with a Fleur-de-lis behind Madonna of the Rocks.
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   Martin Kemp (art historian)

   LEONARDO DA VINCI ... ed., 'Mood of the Moment' Masterworks of Photography from the University of St. Andrews, exhibition catalogue, Crawford Arts Centre, University of St. Andrews and National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1993-4.
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   The Last Supper (Leonardo)

   Leonardo painted The Last Supper on a dry wall rather than on wet plaster, so it is not a true fresco. ... A Different Da Vinci Code
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   Thematic development of Italian Renaissance painting

   Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of the Magi. ... Masaccio painted the central section.
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    Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo, who questioned the order of the solar system and the deposit of fossils by the Great Flood, had little time for the notion that lead could be turned into gold or that a potion could be created that gave eternal life. ... Leonardo da Vinci

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• Martin Kemp (art historian),
• The Last Supper (Leonardo),
• Thematic development of Italian Renaissance painting,
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