Monday, April 24th, 2006
In the course of the Da Vinci Code Quest today I was asked to find the name of the city that houses the three dimensional rendition of Da Vinci’s Last Supper. The work is a self portrait of Marisol Escobar sitting opposite a boxed table with Jesus and the twelve disciples. The installation is made of painted and drawn wood, plywood, brownstone, plaster and aluminium. And the answer to the question? It’s housed in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Over at the Da Vinci Code Online, I’ve recently posted on Da Vinci’s paintings, “Madonna of the Rocks” and “Virgin of the Rocks”, hung in the Louvre in Paris and the National Gallery in London respectively. Da Vinci was commissioned to paint an altarpiece in honour of the immaculate conception of Mary. The painting was to include Mary, Jesus, two prophets and two angels. Da Vinci painted Mary and Jesus in caves, with John the Baptist as an infant along with an angel, Uriel. His commissioners were not happy and ended up with a second modified copy - the one now hung in London.
Earlier posts at Da Vinci Code Online cover:
The Louvre Museum
The Ritz Hotel, Paris
American University of Paris
Boston Magazine
Chartres Cathedral
Direction Central Police Judiciaire
Louvre Pyramide
Opus Dei Center
Church of Saint Sulpice
Virtruvian Man
Paris Rose Line
Mona Lisa
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
Today I was looking at a few sites relating to places and people referred to in Dan Brown’s book, “The Da Vinci Code”. I thought about posting them here on Pacific Highlander but thought better of it. I started a new blog instead.
It’s The Da Vinci Code Online.
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