[Paal Gulli]

"The Italian usage, as well as that of art historians, is plain Leonardo. da Vinci didn’t become common until Dan Brown."

That's so ridiculous it's silly. I'm more than three times as old as the book Dan Brown stole the idea of from Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, and he was "da Vinci" in my elementary school books (which were so old they were cuneiform written on clay tablets.

[SunkenCiv]

:^D Well put. I always hated it when the bald guy in the choir robe struck my knuckles while I was trying to make the impressions in the clay.