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Da Vinci is famous for possibly hiding another face in what some
consider the most famous painting of all time, the Mona Lisa. And then
there’s the disappearing Angel Gabriel in the Annunciation. But never
before has da Vinci’s talents for hiding images in his works of art become more
apparent to me than with this map. When exposed to light, a brand new map takes
shape. A topographical map that is both 3D and highlighted with specific
landmarks.
In place of an almost blank image
of the northern Italian landscape is now a path from the stone casa that leads
directly down the hill, across the stream bed, up a tall, jagged hilltop, and
out into a valley to the west. Inside that space, da Vinci wrote the word: “ᗡiviniƚà” in Italian … and
mirrored, of course.
“Divinity,” I say
