Leonardo da Vinci was an amazing man: an inventor, artist, sculptor, architect, scientist, musician, mathematician, engineer, writer, and more. Some consider him the father of paleontology and architecture, he is widely considered one of the greatest painters in history. Da Vinci’s The Last Supper is the source of much speculation and many conspiracy theories, and plays an important role in modern fiction.
Dan Brown is an American novelist whose most well-known work of fiction, The DaVinci Code, retells the ridiculous story from Holy Blood, Holy Grail: that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, and that their descendants are alive today. Despite being fiction, the book is written in ways that cast doubt on established historical facts. Many have been confused by the book, causing them to wonder whether the historic Christian faith is true.