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Da Vinci Code causes art history boom

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Dan Brown's preposterous bestseller may lead to an increase in the number of art historians.

"We took extracts and talked about how Dan Brown had described the paintings and architecture," says Dr Nick Grindle, the lecturer who devised this part of the trip. "We went to the Louvre to look at how [the way] someone describes something can change the meaning."

Brown, he found, was not to be relied on: "He tended to describe things inaccurately. He misread really quite standard things, such as who was John the Baptist and who was Jesus in a particular picture."

Art historians are agreed on the "waywardness" of Brown's interpretations. "It simplifies to an extreme level what art history is about," says Dr Henry. "Really, The Da Vinci Code shows students how not to go about art history."

Da Vinci Code fans line up to study art history

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EXCUSE ME MISTER RICHARD BUT MR BROWN S RACISM IS SO OBVIOUS EXCLUSIVLY IN HIS BOOK ANGELS AND DEMONS AGAINST ARABS ,HE DESCRIBED THEM BEING BARBARIAN SATANIC AND ANIMALS WHICH DO NOT LINK TO THE TRUTH AN INCH I WAS LIKE A LOT OF US ARABS HURT BY THESE WRITINGS MISFORTUNATELY IM FEELING THAT THE HOLE BETWEEN WEST AND EAST IS BECOMING DEEPER WHICH MAKES US FEEL ANXOUIS ABOUT OUR FUTURE THE PROBLEM IS NT JUST WHIS MR BROWN BUT ALSO WHIS LOT OF AUTHORS THAT ARE IGNORANT IN OUR CULTURE AND HISTORY .THANK U FOR ALLOWING US TO WRITE OUR THOUGHTS MAYSSAN-LEBANESE

Posted by: MAYSSAN SAKR | September 23, 2005 6:46 PM

Greetings Richard, Don't know if you wish to carry another site's link in comments but thought you might be personally interested in a totally rational and extremely different take on Leonardo's encryption. If so it can be found at www.macewan.net?page_id=293. Mayssan would like it better too! Enjoyed my visit, Dwayne

Posted by: Dwayne | October 10, 2005 12:58 PM

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