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Chapter 26

           Totheleft,theroom’soctagonalviewingdivanemerged,lookinglikeadarkislandontheemptyseaofparquet.

           Langdoncouldnowbegintoseethepanelofdarkglassonthewall.Behindit,heknew,intheconfinesofherownprivatecell,hungthemostcelebratedpaintingintheworld.

           TheMonaLisa’sstatusasthemostfamouspieceofartintheworld,Langdonknew,hadnothingtodowithherenigmaticsmile.Norwasitduetothemysteriousinterpretationsattributedherbymanyarthistoriansandconspiracybuffs.Quitesimply,theMonaLisawasfamousbecauseLeonardoDaVinciclaimedshewashisfinestaccomplishment.Hecarriedthepaintingwithhimwheneverhetraveledand,ifaskedwhy,wouldreplythathefoundithardtopartwithhismostsublimeexpressionoffemalebeauty.

           Evenso,manyarthistorianssuspectedDaVinci’sreverencefortheMonaLisahadnothingtodowithitsartisticmastery.Inactuality,thepaintingwasasurprisinglyordinarysfumatoportrait.DaVinci’svenerationforthiswork,manyclaimed,stemmedfromsomethingfardeeper:ahiddenmessageinthelayersofpaint.TheMonaLisawas,infact,oneoftheworld’smostdocumentedinsidejokes.Thepainting’swell-documentedcollageofdoubleentendresandplayfulallusionshadbeenrevealedinmostarthistorytomes,andyet,incredibly,thepublicatlargestillconsideredhersmileagreatmystery.

           Nomysteryatall,Langdonthought,movingforwardandwatchingasthefaintoutlineofthepaintingbegantotakeshape.Nomysteryatall.

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