Da Vinci Obsessed Art Expert

A painter fascinated with best-selling conspiracy thriller The Da Vinci Code committed suicide after becoming convinced she was the subject of a real-life murder plot, the Daily Mail reports. Caroline Eldridge, 38, moved to Italy to pursue her interest in Leonardo Da Vinci, but her mind became "muddled" by the mysteries surrounding his work, her father said. She suffered paranoid delusions that she and her family were in danger "because of the knowledge that she had" of Leonardo after working on an art exhibition about his paintings. After repeatedly telling her family, "I'm not going to let them take me alive," she took an overdose of paracetamol. The Da Vinci Code, which has sold more than 60 million copies, centres on a sinister plot by Catholic organisation Opus Dei to kill the book's hero Robert Langdon before he discovers, via clues in Da Vinci's paintings, that Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and had a son. (For full source and article click the Headline). Irish Art