'The Da -- Code'

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Da Vinci had drawn up blueprints for hundreds of inventions he had never built.

Designed by Da Vinci in 1495 as an outgrowth of his earliest anatomy and kinesiology studies, the internal mechanism of the robot knight possessed accurate joints and tendons, and was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck while opening and closing an anatomically correct jaw.

Maybe, by imitating a famous Da Vinci drawing, Saunière was simply echoing some of their shared frustrations with the modern Church's demonization of the goddess.

Da Vinci had always been an awkward subject for historians, especially in the Christian tradition.

Moreover, the artist's eerie eccentricities projected an admittedly demonic aura: Da Vinci exhumed corpses to study human anatomy.

Accepting hundreds of lucrative Vatican commissions, Da Vinci painted Christian themes not as an expression of his own beliefs but rather as a commercial venture—a means of funding a lavish lifestyle.

Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him.

We've only touched on Da Vinci today, but we'll be seeing a lot more of him this semester.

By lowering the countryside on the left, Da Vinci made Mona Lisa look much larger from the left side than from the right side.

Whatever Da Vinci was up to," Langdon said, "his Mona Lisa is neither male nor female.

But actually Da Vinci left a big clue that the painting was supposed to be androgynous.

The bizarre scene Da Vinci had painted included an awkwardly posed Virgin Mary sitting with Baby Jesus, John the Baptist, and the Angel Uriel on a perilous outcropping of rocks.

Although Da Vinci did as they requested, when he delivered the work, the group reacted with horror.

In fact, Da Vinci painted the true Grail, which I will show you momentarily, but first we must speak of the Bible.

You can see that Da Vinci was well aware of how Peter felt about Mary Magdalene.