Sorting Out Your “Da Vinci’s” From “Leonardo”

Dan Brown’s thriller “The Da Vinci Code” has captured the popular imagination. But interesting as it is, it fails the test of historical accuracy. “Controversial in life, Leonardo still provokes a bewildering range of admirers and detractors. No other artist is burdened with such baggage, but then, the ambiguity and gaps in our knowledge render him a blank sheet onto which almost anything can be projected.”