Title: Don't bother with this book - read Umberto Eco instead!!
Product review: I agree with the reader from Evergreen, CO - if you're going to write a book like this, do your homework first! I'm not an art history scholar, but I have two degrees in medieval history. The inaccuracy of the author's assertions about almost every historical reference I ran across in this book was appalling! I too tried to have fun with the story, but the bad research was so distracting that I never truly engaged in the book. If you are interested in reading a great book that also deals in similar subjects, go to the master - Umberto Eco - and read Foucault's Pendulum. Eco's breadth of knowledge is vast, and he deftly navigates not only history, but philosophy, theology, semiotics, philology, etc. and weaves them seamlessly into a captivating plot with 3-dimensional characters.
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