'Da Vinci Code' Readers Flock to Milan's Last Supper
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The guide ushering tourists into the former monks' dining hall that houses Leonardo da Vinci's faded masterpiece "The Last Supper" tried in vain to interest her audience in art history, technique and aesthetics.
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Admirers massed by the hundreds in Modena's main piazza Thursday night to pay their final respects to Luciano Pavarotti, the tenor cherished by many as "the last, great voice" of Italian opera.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ."   Cheers went up in St. Peter's Square from a crowd of about 30,000 people when the pontiff finished reading the Latin words with which he beatified the five candidates, and banners with their images were unfurled on the facade of St...
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With the release of &quot;The Passion of the Christ&quot; DVD yesterday, retail outlets braced for heavy crowds to bring heavenly sales.
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Best-selling book The Da Vinci Code is banned in Lebanon after Catholic leaders deemed it offensive to Christianity.
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The issue has united readers of all stripes, from the religious to privacy advocates, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos writes.
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Media hordes descend on the Venice Vegas of the Orient
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La vincita nella frazione di Santa Maria delle Mole
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The book, while hardly high culture, keeps the heart racing. The film, most critics agree, is more like a tranquilizer shot. &quot;The Da Vinci Code&quot; is just the latest proof that what keeps you turning pages late at night won&#039;t necessarily keep you awake in the theater.
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Italian scholar Giuseppe Pallanti claims in a new book to have identified Mona Lisa, the woman whose mysterious smile has intrigued art lovers ever since Leonardo da Vinci painted her portrait 500 years ago.
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Photographs from the book by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily - Los Angeles - As &quot;The Da Vinci Code&quot; sweeps into movie theaters on Friday, many questions are being asked. With an insider at the Cannes Film Festival, FWD has some answers, straight from the key players in the film that posits the idea that Jesus Christ was not only married, but was a father as well.
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The Bishop of Durham calls the plot of bestseller The Da Vinci Code, which claims Jesus was not crucified, "laughable".
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Mona Lisa. Visitors to the Louvre museum in Paris, home of the world's most famous painting, started quizzing tour guides about Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code."
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*BEST SELLER La pellicola Ã¨ tratta dal libro &#39;Da Vinci code&#39; che ha riscosso un enorme successo. *NOMI Tom Hanks sarÃ  il protagonista insieme ad un&#39; attrice francese non ancora scelta. *REGIA Il regista
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'Da Vinci Code' inspres Italian firm to post a detailed digital image of the famous painting for worldwide scrutiny.