art museum curators

Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.

Mark Manship, chief curator of European art at New York's Metropolitan Museum, is mounting a major exhibition of the works of Botticelli, but he is thwarted in his attempts to collect the paintings he needs by a deranged nationalist who has vowed to either recapture or destroy all Italian art treasures.