Langdon explains to Fache that SauniГЁre was a leading authority on the subject of goddess artwork and that the pentacle SauniГЁre drew on his chest in his own blood represents an allusion to the goddess and not devil worship, as Fache believes.

The message includes a Fibonacci sequence out of order. Police captain Bezu Fache tells him that he was summoned to help the police decode the cryptic message SauniГЁre left during the final minutes of his life. Breaking with conventional formulas used in depicting saints, he used ordinary people as models and painted them with unforgiving realism his inclination against tradition gave new meaning to the interpretation of traditional themes in religious paintingвЂќ (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia).Louvre curator and Priory of Sion grand master Jacques SauniГЁre is fatally shot one night at the museum by an albino Catholic monk named Silas, who is working on behalf of someone he knows only as the Teacher, who wishes to discover the location of the 'keystone,' an item crucial in the search for the Holy Grail.ДЄfter SauniГЁre's body is discovered in the pose of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, the police summon Harvard professor Robert Langdon, who is in town on business. Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was вЂњthe most renowned and controversial painter in Rome of his era. 6-the sentence may additionally allude to the famous and enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa, which figures prominently in the novel).The Louvre is the worldвЂ™s largest museum (King Philip II built it in the twelfth century as a fortress), and it does indeed house many of the worldвЂ™s most treasured artistic masterpieces. 3) and as he dies in the Grand Gallery вЂњthe worldвЂ™s most famous paintings seemed to smile down on him like old friendsвЂќ (p. The Prologue also introduces the importance of art in the story: SauniГЁre pulls вЂњthe nearest painting he could see, a CaravaggioвЂќ from the wall in order to sound the LouvreвЂ™s alarms (p. He reveals very few details regarding the specifics of SauniГЁreвЂ™s knowledge or his attackerвЂ™s mission, but readers gather that the curator is, even when facing death, still on a quest to protect an important secret-and that the albino is on an equally determined quest to learn that secret.

SauniГЁre uses his last minutes of life to find some way of communicating the secret knowledge he has, fully realizing that, if he fails, his death will interrupt вЂњan unbroken chain of knowledgeвЂќ that stretches back for centuries.Analysis: Appropriately enough for a novel steeped in the legends and lore of the Holy Grail, Brown establishes the novel as a вЂњquest storyвЂќ in this arresting opening episode. The albino shoots SauniГЁre in the stomach and leaves him to die. SauniГЁre tells a carefully rehearsed lie regarding the location. PrologueSummary: After hours in the Louvre Museum in Paris, curator Jacques SauniГЁre is accosted by a large, mysterious albino man who is seeking the location of something he says SauniГЁre and his вЂњbrethrenвЂќ possess that does not belong to them.

SUMMARY AND ANALYSISNote: All page numbers reference the mass market paperback edition of The Da Vinci Code published March 2006 by Anchor Books.

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