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For centuries, we have been taught that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. Indeed, the Italian explorer not only has cities named after him but an entire country in his honor. While Columbus' legacy lives on, there were those who set foot in the Americas, before him– including Leonardo da Vinci.
This first non-fiction volume is about secret clandestine expeditions funded by the wealthy and powerful Italian families of the Renaissance period. Though Leonardo da Vinci, with his love of codes and puns, may not have kept the secret as well as his financiers may have liked, leaving behind codes in his works for the world to play around.
Da Vinci in America compiles more than 270 pieces of evidence, looking at georeferenced landscapes, animals, plants, and food in da Vinci's artwork that could not have reproduced accurately if he not seen them with his own eyes. On top of the geological survey, the book also looks at the possible influence of Native American, Mayan, and Inca culture on da Vinci's work, as well as references to events mentioned in da Vinci's letters and codices.
"Da Vinci in America" will reveal the unsuspected links between Leonardo da Vinci's materials and disciplines, such as earth and life sciences, anthropology, sociology and archaeology, which are all related to the unexplored historical perspectives and personal expressions of Leonardo da Vinci, as reflected in his artwork and writings with a multidisciplinary and breakthrough methodology that will unravel the connections between Leonardo da Vinci's codes with his secret pre-Columbian expeditions to the Inca empire, as well as his extraordinary travels to the present day British Columbia, U.S. Pacific Coast, Mexico and Central America.
I am Dr. Ben River, an international exploration geologist with over 16 years of experience and I have used my expertise in geoscience to identify the potential locations of the ecosystem and the landscape depicted in the Da Vinci material and paintings.
You have in your possession a 110k-word complete book that holds more than 270 carefully researched proofs of the New World, the Americas, inhabited by the children of the sun and its exotic animals and plants never seen before in da Vinci's time.
This is the first of a series of non-fictional volumes, Da Vinci in America, backed by historic, geological and scientific proofs collected over years resulting into one thing – Da Vinci in America.
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Da Vinci in America: BOOK 1, #1
Oleh Dr Ben River
Panjangnya: 1,171 halaman6 jam
Deskripsi
For centuries, we have been taught that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. Indeed, the Italian explorer not only has cities named after him but an entire country in his honor. While Columbus' legacy lives on, there were those who set foot in the Americas, before him– including Leonardo da Vinci.
This first non-fiction volume is about secret clandestine expeditions funded by the wealthy and powerful Italian families of the Renaissance period. Though Leonardo da Vinci, with his love of codes and puns, may not have kept the secret as well as his financiers may have liked, leaving behind codes in his works for the world to play around.
Da Vinci in America compiles more than 270 pieces of evidence, looking at georeferenced landscapes, animals, plants, and food in da Vinci's artwork that could not have reproduced accurately if he not seen them with his own eyes. On top of the geological survey, the book also looks at the possible influence of Native American, Mayan, and Inca culture on da Vinci's work, as well as references to events mentioned in da Vinci's letters and codices.
"Da Vinci in America" will reveal the unsuspected links between Leonardo da Vinci's materials and disciplines, such as earth and life sciences, anthropology, sociology and archaeology, which are all related to the unexplored historical perspectives and personal expressions of Leonardo da Vinci, as reflected in his artwork and writings with a multidisciplinary and breakthrough methodology that will unravel the connections between Leonardo da Vinci's codes with his secret pre-Columbian expeditions to the Inca empire, as well as his extraordinary travels to the present day British Columbia, U.S. Pacific Coast, Mexico and Central America.
I am Dr. Ben River, an international exploration geologist with over 16 years of experience and I have used my expertise in geoscience to identify the potential locations of the ecosystem and the landscape depicted in the Da Vinci material and paintings.
You have in your possession a 110k-word complete book that holds more than 270 carefully researched proofs of the New World, the Americas, inhabited by the children of the sun and its exotic animals and plants never seen before in da Vinci's time.
This is the first of a series of non-fictional volumes, Da Vinci in America, backed by historic, geological and scientific proofs collected over years resulting into one thing – Da Vinci in America.
- Penerbit:
- Dr Ben River
- Dirilis:
- May 15, 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781951028800
- Format:
- Buku
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DA VINCI IN AMERICA
New Orleans, LA.
First Edition, May 2020
Copyright ©2020 by Ben River
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ISBN -978-1-951028-89-3
ISBN: 978-1-951028-80-0 (ebook)
DA VINCI
IN
AMERICA
OVER 270 NEWLY COLLECTED PIECES OF
EVIDENCE OF DA VINCI’S EXPEDITIONS TO
THE PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAS
BOOK 1
BEN RIVER
Seeing is believing
BOOK 1
The first of a series of non-fictional volumes entitled, DA VINCI IN AMERICA.
Introduction Note
As far as regards us here, what we have seen and gone through is such that I could not imagine that things could ever rise to such an amount of mischief, as we experienced in the space of ten hours. In the first place we were assailed and attacked by the violence and fury of the winds; to this was added the falling of great mountains of snow which filled up all this valley, thus destroying a great part of our city. And not content with this the tempest sent a sudden flood of water to submerge all the low part of this city; added to which there came a sudden rain, or rather a ruinous torrent and flood of water, sand, mud, and stones, entangled with roots, and stems and fragments of various trees; and every kind of thing flying through the air fell upon us; finally a great fire broke out, not brought by the wind, but carried as it would seem, by ten thousand devils, which completely burnt up all this neighbourhood and it has not yet ceased. And those few who remain unhurt are in such dejection and such terror that they hardly have the courage to speak to each other as if they were stunned. Having abandoned all our business, we stay here together in the ruins …
- Leonardo Da Vinci.
This short passage from Leonardo da Vinci’s letter, written in the wake of a sudden powerful natural disaster, has hitherto been regarded by scholars as only a fictitious letter, a fictional tale he made up to divert who-knows-who.
However, German art historian and translator of da Vinci’s notebooks, Jean Paul Richter (1847 – 1937) did add a footnote to that letter noting that he felt it implied that da Vinci did live wherever the event he’s describing occurred.
I myself have spent 16 years studying the extraordinary mind of Leonardo da Vinci, and this letter describes a real geological event, a real witness to what he saw in that terrible natural disaster, somewhere you can’t even imagine was possible...
It happened during his secretive pre-Columbian travels in what is now known as the Americas and, in this case, while living along the northwest coast in North America, when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1482 (in what is now Washington state) and caused a violent earthquake that resulted in a huge natural disaster, breaking the great natural dam, The Bridge of the Gods,
which led to a destructive and powerful flood event from the huge body of water released by the Columbia River.
This letter contains a small clue, a mysterious little map, and as not all scientists have been able to locate this map, it was interpreted as an undeniable sign of da Vinci’s madness. I consider this letter to be an extraordinary historical and geological artifact from the hand of a great genius because this is a real map and its localization perfectly matches, geologically speaking, the historical story of da Vinci and the natural disaster he witnessed.
We all have a tendency to judge and ignore things we do not understand, especially when their objectives are unclear. Instead, we deny their meaningfulness and naturally and naively recreate another truth in order to turn our ignorance into an absolute truth. Leonardo da Vinci urges us instead to study both the science of art and the art of science to, realize that everything is related to everything else.
I’m Dr. Ben River, an internationally recognized exploration geologist with over sixteen years of experience. It has been a beautiful and refreshing experience to decipher Leonardo da Vinci’s works and it has been a difficult task, probably the most stimulating mind game I’ve had to resolve in the last fifteen years.
You may have heard or read about Leonardo da Vinci’s life, but the question is, why did he hide so many strange symbols and complex codified messages in his artwork? The detailed geoscientific investigations of his materials have led me to numerous exceptional discoveries that will answer this important question through a fantastic journey through the Americas with its unique peoples and native species, its astonishing cultures and its timeless legends and myths.
When looking at a landscape, we may feel that it would be difficult to create such a complex natural design, as it involves thousands of disciplines, and these natural landscapes in which we all live, whether we meditate or are spiritually connected to them, are very sophisticated ecosystems born more than 3.8 billion years ago and hosting more than 320 million species.
This was something Leonardo da Vinci understood perfectly and he fully integrated this design into his artwork, innovations and inventions. Da Vinci has been integrating the studies of flora and fauna into his codes and symbols since childhood, when he developed his love of nature. All of Leonardo da Vinci’s material accurately reproduces specific cutting-edge biomimicry designs based on his perceptions of our ecosystems and their living species.
We are all shaped by the different ecosystems we live in, so we must rediscover their earth and life sciences and take a look at da Vinci’s artwork at different scales, at various times and from different angles to uncover the greatest secret in our history, immortalized in da Vinci’s materials and those of other great minds—the hidden guardians of these incredible forgotten historic events.
The landscape of La Gioconda, more commonly known as Mona Lisa, now belongs to the Native Americans, to the Coast Salish nations from British Columbia and Washington, D.C., a land that Marco Polo may have already known as Aquabella de Catio—or, the beautiful waters of Cathay,
with its beautiful waters with leaping orcas, dark-green pine forests, snow-capped volcanic mountains and tranquil sunsets that are extraordinarily picturesque.
The profound truth of the Mona Lisa belongs to the Inca empire, a place where Leonardo da Vinci spent a number of years in total secrecy, on a mercenary mission on behalf of the powerful Sforza family’s condottieri group, under the sponsorship of Italian financiers.
Imagine the unthinkable tale of Leonardo da Vinci becoming the confidant, the contractor and a very close friend to the Inca Emperor, Topa Inca.
I am about to bring a lost and priceless painting back to life, the first and only unknown da Vinci self-portrait, which was first identified in 2005 by German historian Maike Vogt-Lüerssen, who has never been able to convince the National Art Gallery in Washington D.C., USA.
Unfortunately, this painting is in extremely poor condition, but if restored with your encouragement, would be priceless and far more precious than the Mona Lisa because it is not only Leonardo da Vinci’s unique self-portrait, but above all, based on my private research, a crucial painting portraying Leonardo da Vinci in his early 30s in the Inca empire, positioned in front of the highest volcanic peak in Peru—the sacred volcano of Coropuna. It’s the world’s only surviving self-portrait, completely ignored by these art experts.
Your continued support of my book will be very crucial in rescuing this inestimable painting.
It is now time to briefly introduce you to my project in a very simple way so that you understand the content of my book.
In the 1470s, a prominent Renaissance artist, Francesco Botticini, who was a very close friend of Andrea del Verrocchio (the young Leonardo da Vinci’s great master), created the famous painting of the Three Archangels with Tobias, in which scholars identified a young boy in his early 20s as Leonardo da Vinci. This young man is portrayed as an archangel, but he is armored in a unique style that the scholars did not think to study properly. Such armor belongs to the condottieri army, the Sforza family’s group of mercenaries. This painting clearly reveals the fact that da Vinci, at 18 years old, had already been part of a very special elite school, known as the Guild of Saint Luke, while undercover with the condottieri. He stood out as a super agent, ready for action, and with his remarkable skills, he became naturally qualified for some very specific secret pre-Columbian missions. Foremost among these missions was exploration and mapping, as well sustaining every possible enhancement in the wealth of both the Italian financiers and the Sforza family.
During the Renaissance period, where the Americas were the promised lands for clandestine trades and the El Dorado for secret adventurers, Leonardo da Vinci visited America twice and, for reasons of great secrecy, every document and piece of material was completely destroyed or disappeared; misinformation was then disseminated among the general public, especially among enemies.
Through some very pragmatic geoscientific studies of da Vinci’s paintings, I have finally located their different landscapes. The flora and fauna hidden in these paintings were studied and correlated to their native American species.
There is a very pleasant mind game involved in finding the hidden images within the different paintings and sketches, extremely enlightening and crucial in recreating and retracing the private journeys of Leonardo da Vinci and his mercenary group.
Were Leonardo da Vinci and the explorers John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci double agents? They may have been, but any story requires a leap of imagination. My book will not be part of any of such leap because it relies on purely scientific observation and nothing more, nothing less, with the wish for you to take the first step to traveling and getting there, and exalting your sense of adventure. How remarkable it would be to meet the unknown, to feel excited about your fears and to be ready for adventure.
I have meticulously reconstructed an accurate timeframe of the various known and unknown historical events in combination with earth sciences, wildlife and related ethnozoology and ethnobotany from the time of Leonardo da Vinci’s voyages.
It becomes very clear to me that all the elements outlined in my book cannot be the fruit of any coincidence or extraordinary imagination, mainly because there is such a low probability of correlation between these consistent intertwined events. Such an incredible chance of coincidence to correlate any of these elements to each other is literally impossible in such a short interval of time and space, both scientifically and historically speaking.
Would you find in any European market tomatoes, potatoes, maize, chili peppers, pineapples and other vegetables and fruit native to America during the da Vinci epoch, in the late 15th century?
Obviously, you wouldn’t. But if you were rich and powerful and one of the people on these secret missions and trades in America, you would probably have gotten a hold of some and you would certainly become addicted to some of them, as we are now with the divine chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, etc. It would be a supreme delicacy, the prestige of having a delicious and very rare fruit kept in secrecy for some privileged VIP members, an elite who supported the trade with the Americas intellectually, financially and politically.
Da Vinci in America
will therefore reveal the unsuspected links between Leonardo da Vinci’s materials and disciplines, such as earth and life sciences, anthropology, sociology and archaeology, which are all related to the unexplored historical perspectives and personal expressions of Leonardo da Vinci, as reflected in his artwork and writings with a multidisciplinary and breakthrough methodology that will unravel the connections between Leonardo da Vinci’s codes with his secret pre-Columbian expeditions to the Inca empire, as well as his extraordinary travels to the present day British Columbia, U.S. Pacific Coast, Mexico and Central America.
You have in your possession a book that holds more than 270 carefully researched proofs of the New World, the Americas, inhabited by the children of the sun and its exotic animals and plants never seen before in da Vinci’s time.
Out of the Box
This photo from Thailand features an empty wooden handcrafted frame at its centre depicting the beach of Koh Lipe, the sea and the fishing boats anchored along the beach. The frame in the center provides an excellent illustration to demonstrate the contents of my book at its best. It is very easy to realize that it is all but impossible to locate the contents of this frame in a setting that differs from that of Southern Thailand or Southeast Asia in general. Suppose you had to cut and paste this frame back into a completely new picture that was actually taken in the desert. It would seem an impossible task, wouldn’t it? However, if you learned about the ethnological, geological and geographical background of this frame, you would most likely find the right location for this picture.
In the course of my free time and while shopping in the air conditioned mall of Penang Island, I was stunned to get a very provocative image of a young woman giving me the finger. As I got closer from behind the pillar, I was truly amazed when I saw a whole different scene in which this youthful lady seems to be having a good time performing with her friends, and that finger which I thought was disrespectful came from the arm of another cheerful person hiding behind the pillar.
This is because what we have perceived from a particular angle of observation turns out to be a fictional reality up until the moment when the hidden truth is found. That is why viewing a da Vinci artwork is only possible by looking at it from different angles, by looking at things in many different ways made possible by new technology and multidisciplinary approaches. It will lead you to perceive a completely different story or interpretation that you may later come to decide to be the truth or a hoax.
In this book, I will give you all the clues and necessary tools you need to shape your own opinion and decide for yourself. Have an open mind and leave emotion out of it. Be enthusiastic and fearless about finding something new. Be adventurous, just as da Vinci must have been on his extraordinary secret journeys to America...We are now ready to embark on a promising expedition to the wonderful land of the Mona Lisa.
Contents
Introduction Note
Out of the Box
1 First Thoughts
The Landscape
Geological Map
The Black Tusk
Garibaldi Provincial Park
Lava Dammed Lake of British Columbia
Bishop’s Mitre
Daisy Lake
Mt. Fee, Pyroclastic Peak and Mt. Cayley
Little Ice Age 500+ years ago
Siwash Rock
Boulder Garden
Jointing Lava Flow in Glacier
The Monolithic Stawamus Chief
Squamish Harbor
2 KELOWNA
Atlanticus Codex
The Translated Letter (1)
The Translated Letter (2)
The Key Map of Cicilia
Deciphering the Da Vinci Map
Satellite Maps
Da Vinci Paleomap
Da Vinci Witnessed a Terrific Natural Hazard
Back to the Past
Terrace Mountain
Silver Star Mountain
Hydrogeology
Past & Present Maps
Treasure Map
Mount St. Helens
Mount Taurus
The Deadly Volcano
Volcanic Lightning Bolts
The Evil Volcanic Eye
Da Vinci Code: Magma
Legend of Mount St. Helens
The Bridge of the Gods
Real Geological Events from Da Vinci’s Life
Da Vinci’s Words
3 LEGENDS, RELICS, ARTWORKS & DA VINCI
Native Americans
Wild Grizzly Bear of North America
Nations of America
The Legend
Kelowna Campsite
Sundogs
Pacific Dogwood
Salish Peninsula
Annunciation
Port Angeles & Elephant Rocks
The Grassland of British Columbia
Hoodoos
Salish Dogs
Salish Nations
Garry Oak
Salmonberry
Marsh Marigold
Mara Hill
Cinnamon Ridge
3D VIews Of Mara Hill
Georeferences
Osoyoos
Okanagan Desert
Da Vinci’s Trauma
4 Early 15th Century Clandestine International Expeditions and Trades - Medici Secrets.
Mule Deer
Bobcat
West Coast North America to SE Asia
Hidden Coconut & Mangoosteen
Vervet Monkey
South Africa
5 The 1470s Mission: Tobias
Da Vinci Dream Job
Sforza Family
Da Vinci Il Condottiero
Ethnobotany
Bearberry (Uva ursi)
Oregon Gumweed
6 1478: Botticelli Codes.
Squash / Pumpkin
Cherry Tomato
Oregon Oak Trees (1)
Oregon Oak Trees
Pacific Crabapple Trees
Cherry-Size Crabapples
Pacific Coast Fruits
A Chihuahua in Sistene Chapel
Second Portrait of Da Vinci
Georeferences
7 Pre-Columbian Explorers - Myth & Reality
Marco Polo
Marco Polo’s Map
Fusang
Quivera Province
Da Vinci Globe & Foolish Magnetic Declination
Leonardo Da Vinci Globe
First Gravitational/Geoid of Earth
The Hidden Leonardo Da Vinci Globe
Ka Boat
Magnetic Declination
Newfoundland Sea
Yale Vinland Map
Earth’s Magnetic Poles
The Northwest Passage
John Cabot’s Expedition
72° North Latitude
Northwest Passage
The Matthew Shipwreck?
Dr. Ruddock’s Secrets
Fur Trade
The Geocreation of Adam
Vinci - Vespucci
Vespucci as Art Patrons
Vasari Code
Francis Drake’s Itinerary
8 Over 270 Collected Pieces of Evidence
Chance of Success vs. Sciences
Main Decoded Evidences
Da Vinci Voyages
9 Da Vinci’s Itinerary
Spatiotemporal Events Model (SEM)
Official World Records
Da Vinci’s Itinerary
North America & Mesoamerica
South America
Voyages to SE Asia
Conceptual Itineraries
10 U.S. Pacific Coast, Mexico & Central America.
Dahlia Flowers
Kakawa Color Code
The Cocoa Money that Grows on Trees
Molinillo
Temptations of St Jerome
Under the Same Sun
Da Vinci’s Maize Code
Thunder and Rain Gods
The Venus-Rain-Maize Complex
Quetzal Bird
Solar Corn God
Heavenly Maize
Castagno Codes
Da Vinci’s Oneness
Cocoa Tree & Maize God
Cocoa, Maize & Ceiba Word Trees
15th Century German Bible
Holofornes’ Head of the Maize God
St Jerome & the Aztec Cocoa Tree
Sunflower
Botticini’s Maize
Winter Squash
Albrecht Dürer
Plato’s Cave
Botticini Code
The Prestigious Pineapple
Verrochio Codes
South American Tapir
Yellow Turtle
Plumed Serpent
Pyramid of the Magician
Amaruca
Tobias Code
Ankh
Knot Code
Tobias Code
Dresden Codex
Chocolate Drink
Mesoamerican Portrait
Mexican Conch
Code: Pomi d’Oro
Censer of Quetzalcoatl
Cave of Emergence
Shamanic Voyage
St. Jerome’s Toad
Datura’s Medicine
I amThat, Ayam...Maya
Adoration of Magic Mushrooms (1)
Adoration of Magic Mushrooms (2)
LORENZO DE’ MEDICI
Shamanic Toad
Geological key
California Dreaming (1476-1478)
Da Vinci High on 5-MEO-DMT
St. Jerome’s Philosopher Stone to speak to Gods
Maya Codex-Style Vessels
Chak Chel’s Mimetolith
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
11 South America
The Andes
Llama and Alpaca
Lunar Idea
Let’s look at some geological maps
Art of Geoscience
Cordillera de la Sal
Sedimentology
Andean Condor
Overview
Madonna of Patagonia
Patagonian Ice Field
Ice Calving
Secret Globe
Second Da Vinci world map
Native Argentinian Horse
Da Vinci Colophons
The Black Spot
Lake Titicaca
Machu Picchu
Cusco - the Navel of the World
Gold
Da Vinci Code: Amare Cane
Hidden Signature
Amare Cane
ALCO code
Nevado Coropuna
Da Vinci Puns
World’s Oldest Living Plant
Secret Missions
Virgin of the Rocks
Agave Americana
Calchaqui Valley
The Children of the Sun
Capybara
Da Vinci’s Universal Message
Allegory of Maize
Da Vinci’s Datura
The Hidden Potato
Atacama Desert
Huatia
Top Secret Da Vinci Materials
Inca Roads
Schinus Molle
Tipón: Who Taught the Inca how to Build an Artificially Irrigated Garden?
Ideal City
Andean Culture
Daily Andean Life
Flowers
Incan Sun God
Mona Lisa’s Smile is a Lie
The Unmasking of Envy
The Cult of the Sun
Da Vinci X-Rayed
Renaissance codes
Llama’s Eyes of Centauri
Yareta
Bardi Bankers
Exotic Cherimoya fruit
Earliest Copies of Mona Lisa
Secret Behind the Secrets
Monkey Puzzle Tree
15th Century Monkey Puzzle Tree
Viracocha
Mammee
Mammee & Monkey Puzzle Trees
Pitaya
Sal Tree of Salai’s Jesus Dress
Raffaello Codes
Cradle of Inca Civilization
Inca Constellations
Inca view of Life
Nothing is Hidden Under the Sun
Gate of the Sun
The Inca Treasures
American Holy Spirit
Pulque
Yuca & Tomato
Last Supper of the Americas
The divine plant of Mona Lisa
Jasmine Tobacco
Hidden tomatoes?
Inca’s Mimetolith
Inca’s Pareidolia
Invisibility of Incan Architecture
Ayahuasca
Yopo Snuff
Holbein’s Yopo
Da Vinci Entheogen Medicine
The Spanish Judas
Francisco Pizarro
Mesoamerican Vessel
Last Supper’s Passion Fruits
12 Da Vinci, Ancient Egypt & America
Anubis vs. Xolo
Kapok Tree
Coca & Tobacco mummies
Ancient Egypt and the Americas
The Da Vinci’s Prime Meridian of Giza
The Encoded Da Vinci Egg Globe
13 Undercover Friars - Inventio Fortunatae & Espionnage
Botticelli, Da Vinci and Zampieri
San Girolamo della Carità
Undercover Friars
The Pre-Columbian Coropuna CodeX
14 Italian Bankers & Popes Collect the Americas
Agostino Chigi’s Villa
American Flora
Agave
Corn Ears
Medici Popes
Grand Dukes de’ Medici
15 Conclusions
Uncover the Pigment’s Secret
Da Vinci’s Whale Graveyard
Index
I
First Thoughts
We know more about the stars high above our heads, as about Earth just below our feet.
Leonardo da Vinci
Let me introduce to you the two landscapes in the background of the famous twins Mon(n)a Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, La Joconde: the Joyful.
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Museo Del Prado, Madrid
The landscape of Mona Lisa Del Prado is less complex than later work of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa of Louvre. Scholars believe that the Mona Lisa Del Prado, an original painting by one of Leonardo da Vinci’s students, was cogenetic to the Mona Lisa of Louvre.
The landscape in the background of Mona Lisa Del Prado is the original version from before Leonardo applied his enormous knowledge to the Mona Lisa of Louvre, which is his best achievement and, indeed, the value of this painting is estimated at more than 800 million US dollars. Most scholars believe that this landscape is the fruit of Leonardo’s imagination. As a geological advisor, I have to admit that I might have found the true location of this painting, a location that might disturb historians and all the communities interested in this matter. This location is in British Columbia, in the northern part of Vancouver, following the Sea to Sky Highway from the Squamish River to the Garibali Lake and onto Mt. Fee, the Pyroclastic Peak and Mt. Cayley. These pages will explain this non-historical event. The first recorded European discovery of British Columbia was by James Cook in 1778, more than 270 years after the Leonardo da Vinci and the Amerigo Vespucci exploration set sail.
The Landscape
I was searching for some potential landscapes that had geological context with a high elevated lake close to a second, lower elevated lake/river and a third lake. Basically, I was searching for a geological setting where glacier played a major role in creating the impressive landscape of the painting. Early in my career, I had been involved in the Cuenca Austral project in Argentina back in 2004 and some igneous provinces in North Arabia and I thought at that time that the Mona Lisa’s geological context would be close to Tibet or Nepal because of their glaciers, but I didn’t find any analogues until this particular moment when I faced a very familiar volcanic peak (1) in the Garibaldi Lake in British Columbia. I looked at the satellite images on Google Earth and I found, to my great surprise, that the three lakes from the painting that were still there and in a similar location to the viewpoint from the painting itself (lakes 2,3,4). I expanded on my observations and it appears that there is only one place on Earth, one unique geological context for the famous landscape of the Mona Lisa. It is not an imaginary landscape but an extraordinary codified testimony of a secret voyage to the New World.
Geological Map
Sattelite Image 2019©CNES/Airbus: 1) Black Tusk 2) Garibaldi Lake 3) Daisy Lake 4) Cheakamus Lake.
The two maps illustrate my very first step in localizing those three lakes in the background of the Mona Lisa. It could be anywhere on Earth, but in the case shown above, among the location of the three lakes, Garibaldi Lake (2) is the highest one. It is a dammed lava lake and the other two, Daisy (3) and Cheakamus (4) are situated below, at the same level as the Squamish river.
A simplified geological map of the Northwestern American Cordillera with water-shed boundaries of the Fraser and Columbia Rivers, adapted from Reed et al. (2004) and Kiyokawa and Yokoyama (2009). Right: Field study of La Gioconda Tour
and geological map of the different belts of the Canadian Cordillera (Carpentier et al., 2014).
The Black Tusk
Garibaldi Provincial Park
The eroded remnant of Black Tusk volcano
Study of the Black Tusk (Turner, 2015)
Black Tusk over 500 years ago is a stratovolcano and a pinnacle of volcanic rocks located in the Garibaldi Provincial Park.
Present Day: Erosion and actual geomorphology of the volcanic peak of the Black Tusk
Lava Dammed Lake of British Columbia
The highest lake on the right side of the background of the Mona Lisa painting is undeniably an isolated lake that can only be formed in a glaciovolcanic context, geologically speaking. This isolated lake type is defined as a lava dammed lake. There are only a few of them in the world and only one that is a perfect analogue to the geological context immortalised in the da Vinci painting.
The Barrier was formed about 13,000 years ago, when large lava flows emanated from Clinker Peak on the west shoulder of Mount Price. The lava flowed towards the Cheakamus River valley. At the time of eruption, the valley was filled with glacial ice. The lava flow was stopped by the ice and ponded, eventually cooling to form an ice-marginal lava flow. When the ice melted away, the ice-cooled lava flow formed a precipitous cliff; water ponded behind the lava dam, forming Garibaldi Lake.
Bishop’s Mitre
By describing exactly the andesitic formations with columnar joints in the front of the landscape, da Vinci gave the key to identifying the location of this painting on top of the barrier and the high lake of Garibaldi - a codified language of the earth sciences if you wish.
Extraordinary analogy of the colors, the texture and the lithotype between the strange looking peaks (bottom left of the painting of Mona Lisa) and the volcanic rocks of the Garibaldi Provincial Park in British Columbia (such as the Bishop Mitre of the Black Tusk, the Pyroclastic Peak and the Table Mountain…). It is very intriguing indeed…let’s continue our journey..
Another picture taken at the Bishop’s Mitre in Garibaldi Park, an amazing analogue to the formations of the Mona Lisa. This clue cannot be mistaken for any other location on Earth - more clues will be found in our journey - follow me to this fantastic voyage through the da Vinci New World.
Daisy Lake
Great similarities of the colors and the geomorphology of the Daisy lake and its surrounding forest in both painting and pictures of the Garibaldi national park.
Details of the Lake of Mona Lisa correlated to the Daisy Lake of Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia.
Daisy Lake, also referred to as Daisy Lake Reservoir, is a reservoir on the Cheakamus River in the Sea to Sky Corridor of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, just south of the resort municipality of Whistler and immediately north of the abandoned townsite of Garibaldi (which until 1932 had also been named Daisy Lake).
Daisy Lake Dam was built in 1957 with the reservoir created by merging the former natural Daisy Lake and another named Shadow Lake. The reservoir supplies the 158 MW Cheakamus Generating Station on the Squamish River via an 11 km tunnel bored beneath the mountain range dividing the two rivers.
Mt. Fee, Pyroclastic Peak and Mt. Cayley
The brown-orange mountains are also found at the pyroclastic peak, Mt. Cayley and the Table Mountain – all part of the Garibaldi volcanic belt in British Columbia.
Leonardo Da Vinci compiled all his geological observations into the Mona Lisa painting.
Great similarities between the geomorphology, the shape of black volcanic formations of Mount Fee, which is located near Garibaldi Lake, exactly in the same perspective view as in the painting.
Little Ice Age 500+ years ago
Leonardo da Vinci depicted the Helm Glacier in the Mona Lisa painting with great detail. It is extends to the Black Tusk as painted below:
Locations of Helm Glacier and Helm lake, Black Tusk and Gentian Peak according to the paleoglacial map.
Location of the present day glaciers and past lava flows (B. Turner, 2014)
Map of Helm Glacier showing moraines and maximum Little Ice Age (LIA) glacier extents. We can easily see that the LIA extended to the Black Tusk, also illustrated in the Mona Lisa painting (Koch et al., 2007).
Forefield of Helm Glacier showing locations of sites mentioned in the article by Koch et al., 2017 (Glacier fluctuations during the past millennium in Garibaldi Provincial Park, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Can. J. Earth. Sci, 44). Maximum Little Ice Age extent of Helm Glacier is indicated by white stippled line.
When taking into account the glacial fluctuations during the Leonardo da Vinci epoch, more than 500 years ago, it is crucial to reconstruct the paleolandscape and once it is complete, it becomes very clear that the lake (4) in the Mona Lisa painting is not Cheakamus Lake but Helm Lake, itself much larger but not at the same altitude as the Garibaldi Lake as painted by Leonardo da Vinci. This approach lets you appreciate how geoscientists understand the past at geological scale.
Siwash Rock
Taken in 1889 or 1890, this photo shows a man in a canoe paddling past Siwash Rock. Traditional indigenous stories about the rock date back thousands of years. (City of Vancouver Archives).
Native legends hold that Siwash Rock is a man who was transformed into stone; two smaller rocks now destroyed to make way for the Stanley Park seawall were his wife and child, and another rock just north of here was Chaens (Chants), which represents the transformed man’s pile of nets. The man, Slahkayulsh, was transformed partly because he defied emissaries of the Great Spirit, and partly to honor the devotion he showed to his child by doing so. The Sto’lo Atlas gives the name for Siwash Rock as S’i’lix, but nearby is also Stxiels - standing up
- which is also given in other sources as its name.
Geologically speaking, the iconic Siwash Rock was very familiar to me as I realized that one of the sketches by LDV might have depicted the same location more than 500 years ago. Amazingly, the geomorphology, as well as the lithofacies and the stratifications are extremely similar between the photos and the sketch itself of the Siwash Rock.
Details of the sketch with surviving trees at the top during intense erosion more than 537 years ago. These wild ducks have their own Duck Lake nearby in British Columbia.
Right side view of the Siwash Rock. The powerful wind-driving waves responsible for intense erosion along the coast. Notice similar lithofacies and at the top (orange rectangle).
Those two trees at the top of Siwash Rock might be the ones in the Leonardo da Vinci sketch.
Above satellite image, from Maxar Technologies in 2019, of the coastal edge of the trees (green line) along the Stanley Park Seawall Path of Vancouver.
These trees might fall anytime during natural landslides that had already started more than 500 years ago. The intense erosion is highlighted in the da Vinci sketch (left) by the orange lines during the latest glaciation and erosion phases. Geologically speaking, the Siwash Rock is made of volcanic intrusions (dykes) associated with the sedimentary deposition.
Below, pictures of a massive buried forest with tree debris along the rivers of British Columbia due to landslides during the last glacial events (Turner, 2014).
Boulder Garden
This sketch (16x20.1 cm, black chalk - RCIN 912397) shows large boulders with an the scale corresponding to the very common large boulders in British Columbia and, particularly, at the site of Boulder Garden with its small river and waterfall.
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