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Article: Reading, Pa., museum exhibit features models based on da Vinci's sketches.
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- Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
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- December 2, 2004
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Byline: Jason Brudereck
Dec. 2--There's been a bit of a recent renaissance for a certain Renaissance artist, thanks in no small part to Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The da Vinci Code."
Now the Reading Public Museum is capitalizing on a revived fascination with the Italian artist by mounting an exhibit called "The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci," which opened Tuesday and runs through Dec. 28.
Museum Director Ronald C. Roth said a museum for art, science and civilization is the perfect place to showcase a Renaissance man.
"Da Vinci combines the arts and sciences so beautifully," Roth said Tuesday as he gazed at reproductions of ...