The Keystone
What's a keystone? Let's allow Dan Brown to educate you—a keystone is: "an engraved tablet that revealed the final resting place of the brotherhood's greatest secret… information so powerful th...
The Eiffel Tower
And here you thought it was only a famous landmark. But according to Dan Brown, the Eiffel Tower is the perfect symbol for France: Symbologists often remarked that France –a country renowned for...
La Pyramide / Blade and Chalice
There are several different facets (no pun intended) to the symbolism of the infamous glass pyramid outside Paris's Louvre museum. On the one hand, it's a symbol in and of itself:The new entrance t...
Crux Gemmata
It's a name that sounds a wee bit like a Marvel superhero…but it's actually a religious symbol. "Crux" means "cross" (bet more than a few of your knew that already) and "gemmata" means…"gems."E...
Aringarosa's Bishop Ring
Just like Fache's crux gemmata's important to establishing the character's beliefs and priorities, Aringarosa's bishop ring carries some significance as well. (These two supporting characters have...
Saunière's Desktop Knight
Throughout the novel, Dan Brown keeps making references to a knight in shining armor that sits upon Saunière's desk in his office at the Louvre:One of Jacques Saunière's favorite pastimes was bri...
The Pentacle
When Saunière arranged his own dying body into a bizarre tableau of symbolism, one of the features that Fache felt he should focus on understanding was the fact that he'd inscribed a pentagram ont...
The Rose
A Rose By Any Other Name (Is Still Uber-Symbolic)We've hit the symbolic jackpot, guys. Besides every teacher's favorite fruit the apple, you'd be hard pressed to find something more symbolically fr...