[Straight Vermonter]

I haven't read the book but why would anyone think Da Vinci would have any special knowedge about any of this? The guy was born one and a half millennia after the events in the New Testament.

[VermiciousKnid]

I haven't read the book but why would anyone think Da Vinci would have any special knowedge about any of this? The guy was born one and a half millennia after the events in the New Testament.

Bingo! I have read the book, and I am astounded at the number of people who think that Leonardo Da Vinci somehow had some special knowledge about the events of the Bible which took place fifteen hundred years before his birth. Most people who think that he did also think that Da Vinci and Jesus Christ were contemporaries!

That being said, I found the book to be amusing entertainment, and I admit that I did enjoy looking at Mr. Da Vinci's artwork again to find the "clues."

Regards,

[dogbyte12]

haven't read the book but why would anyone think Da Vinci would have any special knowedge about any of this? The guy was born one and a half millennia after the events in the New Testament.

On that same notion, since DaVinci was born 1500 years later, so what if he actually was trying to depict Magdalene as the disciple by Christ? Does it change Christianity one whit for a very talented artist 1,500 years later to throw that into his painting?

On that one point, I agree with the novel. DaVinci was painting a woman there. But again, the question should be... so what?