The Da Vinci Code Musings
Maybe I should re-think my "I know, I'll make reading actual books (not fanfic, not manga) my new hobby." Cursed them be that they tend to be long, and the good ones intriguing. The thing I've noticed is I don't like books where you can pick them up and put them down... Because I'll put them down and forget about them. Here you see the byproduct of the instant gratification society, someone who can't put a book down to sleep the necessary hours for work and kicks herself for it.
Well I joined the league of masses and finally read The DaVinci Code, and almost in one sitting.
The book has now made me want to go haul myself up in a library and pour over the master's and read up on conspiracy theories regarding them. If all this about Da Vinci is true, he jumps up on my list of 'cool artists' Especially since I have felt the Italian Renaissance lacked the vibrancy and (symbological/iconographical whatever) depth that the Northern Renaissance just oozed.
Though part of me regrets reading it last night, the book was good but I was reading it in the 1/2 hour time between work and before class starts, and classes started just as it was getting interesting I came home at 10 and read it till 2. Now I think I should've waited until I had a chance actually sit and think about all the puzzles Brown was presenting , instead of in a sleep-addled, must-finish-so-I-can-sleep-and-go-to-work-tomorrow state.
The book has done nothing but re-ignite my love for art and religious history. The church and artists' bonds(or lack-there-of) that play into the history so deeply, the symbology, the hidden stories, the backdrops, all that was once transparent to all but have been lossed through the ages and perception changes. And the best of all, historical discrepencies and myths created to control the masses. This has made me more anxious to read the next one on my list "Revolutionary Myths", which as the name implies deals with the founding of the US.
I am now itching to do research and artwork. And never has my icon been more appropriate.
Well I joined the league of masses and finally read The DaVinci Code, and almost in one sitting.
The book has now made me want to go haul myself up in a library and pour over the master's and read up on conspiracy theories regarding them. If all this about Da Vinci is true, he jumps up on my list of 'cool artists' Especially since I have felt the Italian Renaissance lacked the vibrancy and (symbological/iconographical whatever) depth that the Northern Renaissance just oozed.
Though part of me regrets reading it last night, the book was good but I was reading it in the 1/2 hour time between work and before class starts, and classes started just as it was getting interesting I came home at 10 and read it till 2. Now I think I should've waited until I had a chance actually sit and think about all the puzzles Brown was presenting , instead of in a sleep-addled, must-finish-so-I-can-sleep-and-go-to-work-tomorrow state.
The book has done nothing but re-ignite my love for art and religious history. The church and artists' bonds(or lack-there-of) that play into the history so deeply, the symbology, the hidden stories, the backdrops, all that was once transparent to all but have been lossed through the ages and perception changes. And the best of all, historical discrepencies and myths created to control the masses. This has made me more anxious to read the next one on my list "Revolutionary Myths", which as the name implies deals with the founding of the US.
I am now itching to do research and artwork. And never has my icon been more appropriate.