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The Tempietto: built in Rome by Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci's friend. Together they created a joint project to express the religious doctrine of the "Two Faces of the Soul." Bramante's architectural achievement was matched by Leonardo's painting of the Mona Lisa, which was a personification of the small chapel which sits at the top of the Janiculum hill--the site of the mythical citadel of the Sun-god Janus.
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The brooding power and mystery of Bramante's Tempietto is brought out in this artistic photographic interpretation. Number six in a series of artistic interpretations of the Tempietto of Bramante in Rome. Sitting atop Rome's highest hill, the Tempietto was the primary geographic focus for Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork--the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde.
Scott Lund © 2011 - the Mona Lisa Code (SM)
The Tempietto: built in Rome by Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci's friend. Together they created a joint project to express the religious doctrine of the "Two Faces of the Soul." Bramante's architectural achievement was matched by Leonardo's painting of the Mona Lisa, which was a personification of the small chapel which sits at the top of the Janiculum hill--the site of the mythical citadel of the Sun-god Janus. Number four in a series of artistic interpretations of the Tempietto of Bramante in Rome. The Tempietto was the primary geographic focus for Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork--the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde.
Scott Lund © 2011- the Mona Lisa Code (SM)
Proof of the Mona Lisa Code was presented in Rome by Scott Lund on September 10, 2011. At 3 p.m. Lund addressed a crowd of people gathered near the ancient Colosseum, then led them to the tune of a bagpiper across the Tiber river to the top of the Janiculum hill. There he identified the Tempietto of Bramante as the site where Leonardo had his vision for the Mona Lisa. International coverage of the event included major Italian media such as La Repubblica, Il Tempo, La Stampa, and AGI.
The greatest secret in art history was declared by Scott Lund in Rome on 9/10/11. It was revealed to be an ingenious optical trick that Leonardo da Vinci used to transform the viewer of the Mona Lisa into the two-faced Roman Sun-god Janus, who looks in opposite directions simultaneously.
Lund has identified the Tempietto of Bramante as the site where Leonardo had his vision for the world's most famous work of art. He states that the Mona Lisa is a personification of the elegant circular chapel built by Donato Bramante at the presumed location of the mythical citadel occupied by Janus at the beginning of Italian civilization.
With a large graphic presentation, Lund demonstrated that, contrary to popular belief, the Mona Lisa's landscape is not a fantasy, but a precise survey map of Rome and its vicinity. The survey cleverly defines the two extremes of religion, marking the center of Christianity on the right side, and the center of paganism on the left. The dome of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican is one end of the survey, and the site of the cult practices of the goddess Diana at Lake Nemi is the other. A line between the two endpoints, 29.5 km apart, intersects the Tempietto of Bramante.
Lund points out that Lake Nemi was the cradle of European witchcraft, and its location on the Mona Lisa was dangerously heretical during the Renaissance period. Using the pagan god Janus as the theme for the painting also implied Leonardo's heretical conviction that the sun was the center of the Universe.
In his book "The Mona Lisa Code," Lund identifies the central figure of the Mona Lisa as a single soul shared between an expectant mother and her unborn male child. The dualistic theme of Janus is symbolized by the partial pillars on either side of the painting, and the god is also identified by the code words ANIMA SOL, which is a secret anagram for the name Mona Lisa, meaning "Soul/Sun god" in Latin.
"What tied the soul and the sun together for Leonardo is that he believed the sun to be the source for the vital force of the soul," says Lund, "Leonardo also believed that all images, including the Mona Lisa, were the result of the sun being projected onto the soul at the back of the eye."
"Leonardo was extremely logical, and the method of his genius is that he always sought out logical extremes. The opposite faces of the Sun-god Janus uniquely portrayed the metaphor of a land survey, which requires the connection of a straight line between two points," says Lund.
According to Lund, Leonardo worked with the archetect Bramante at the court of Milan until 1499 when an invading French army sent their patron, Duke Ludovico Sforza, fleeing the city. The two friends then sought safety and new opportunities in Rome, which was preparing for its Grand Jubilee of 1500. The Mona Lisa was probably begun in conjunction with the groundbreaking of Bramante's Tempietto in 1502, at a time when Leonardo was known to have been in Rome. Their complementary projects were intended to symbolize the religious doctrine of the "Two Faces of the Soul."
Lund says that the radical stereoscopic illusion Leonardo crafted into the Mona Lisa exceeds the imagination of any Hollywood movie script writer. Billions of people have viewed the painting without suspecting the ingenious Janus-faced perspective that the grand master had placed them in.
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The Tempietto: built in Rome by Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci's friend. Together they created a joint project to express the religious doctrine of the "Two Faces of the Soul." Bramante's architectural achievement was matched by Leonardo's painting of the Mona Lisa, which was a personification of the small chapel which sits at the top of the Janiculum hill--the site of the mythical citadel of the Sun-god Janus. Number six in a series of artistic interpretations of the Tempietto of Bramante in Rome. The Tempietto was the primary geographic focus for Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork--the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde.
Scott Lund © 2011- the Mona Lisa Code (SM)
The Tempietto: built in Rome by Bramante, Leonardo da Vinci's friend. Together they created a joint project to express the religious doctrine of the "Two Faces of the Soul." Bramante's architectural achievement was matched by Leonardo's painting of the Mona Lisa, which was a personification of the small chapel which sits at the top of the Janiculum hill--the site of the mythical citadel of the Sun-god Janus. Number three in a series of artistic interpretations of the Tempietto of Bramante in Rome. The Tempietto was the primary geographic focus for Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork--the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde.
Mona Lisa Code © 2011 — at Janiculum hill, Rome.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Donato Bramante's Tempietto were sister projects created at the same time to express the religious doctrine of the "Two Faces of the Soul." The Tempietto's solid lower half symbolized the "animal soul," while its lofty domed upper half symbolized the "rational" or "human" soul whose purpose is to comprehend God and the cosmos. The Mona Lisa expressed, among other things, the idea of a single soul shared between a mother and her unborn child. Leonardo used the metaphor of the two-faced Roman god Janus to express the duality of the soul in his painting. The ideal proportions of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man are found in the architecture of the Tempietto, and he is thought to have influenced its design. Leonardo also used the god Janus to serve as the metaphor for his sacred land survey depicted in the background landscape of the Mona Lisa. The survey line stretched from the dome of the Vatican to the cult site of the pagan Childbirth goddess Diana, and intersected the location of the Tempietto on top of Rome's Janiculum hill. The dome of the Tempietto served as a model for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, for which Bramante was also the architect. The Janiculum hill was named after the god Janus, who was said to have brought civilization to Italy during a "Golden Age." His mythical citadel was thought to have been located precisely where the Tempietto was built.
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Self-evident proof showing that Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa as a personification of Bramante's Tempietto in Rome. The Prado copy of the iconic painting provides corroborating detail that the partial pillars on the wall behind the Mona Lisa figure, and the chair she sits on, were taken directly from the architecture of the chapel.
According to Scott Lund's “Mona Lisa Code,” Da Vinci and his good friend Donato Bramante created their works together to express the religious doctrine of the “Two Faces of the Soul.” With his newly released visual presentation, Lund thinks the evidence is conclusive. “The sister projects of the Tempietto and the Mona Lisa were clear artistic and symbolic representations of each other,” says Lund. “Most assertions and assumptions about the Mona Lisa are wrong, and art history is about to be rewritten.”
Lund points out that the Tempietto, which sits atop Rome's highest hill, was the vantage point from where the right side landscape of the Mona Lisa was viewed. The site was the mythical location of the citadel of the two-faced Roman god Janus, who Da Vinci used as his hidden metaphor for the dualistic painting.
In 2010, Lund revealed that the Mona Lisa figure was the secret depiction of a double soul shared between a mother and her unborn child. Da Vinci had written about the concept, and he believed souls gave birth to other souls. In his new presentation, Lund shows that the architectural basis for the Tempietto was two tangent circles, which were symbolic of the conception of one soul from another. Lund believes the unique double-bellied design of the upper railing, clearly seen as the spindles of the armrest, also represents the metaphor of a splitting soul. The railing effectively divides the Tempietto into upper and lower halves.
“Ongoing excavations to discover the remains of Lisa Gherardini, the supposed model for the Mona Lisa, will shed no light on the painting,” says Lund. “Whether or not her bones are found at a former Ursuline convent in Florence, it has no connection to the Mona Lisa Code, or to Leonardo da Vinci, who most certainly did not use her likeness.”
The Tempietto di Bramante in Montorio is under the authority of the Real Academia de España en Roma, or “Royal Academy of Spain in Rome,” and under the patronage of the Spanish Royal Family.
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A dream-like interpretation of Bramante's Tempietto in Rome is brought out in this artistic photo. Number seven in a series of artistic interpretations of the Tempietto of Bramante in Rome. Sitting atop Rome's highest hill, the Tempietto was the primary geographic focus for Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork--the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde.
Scott Lund © 2011 - the Mona Lisa Code (SM)
The greatest secret in art history was declared by Scott Lund in Rome on the date 9/10/11. It was revealed to be an ingenious optical trick that Leonardo da Vinci used to transform the viewer of the Mona Lisa into the pagan Sun god Janus who looks in opposite directions simultaneously.
The Los Angeles investigative writer briefly addressed a crowd of people gathered near the ancient Colosseum, then led them to the tune of a bagpiper across the Tiber river to the top of the Janiculum hill named after the two-faced Sun god. There he identified the Tempietto of Bramante as the site where Leonardo had his vision for the world's most famous work of art. Lund states that the Mona Lisa is a personification of the elegant circular chapel built by Donato Bramante at the presumed location of the mythical citadel occupied by Janus at the beginning of Italian civilization.
Scott Lund © 2011 Mona Lisa Code (sm)
Bramante's Tempietto, which sits atop the Janiculum hill in Rome. The religious doctrine of the "Two Faces of the Soul" is brought out in this image, where the ethereal Celestial Soul is seen as the domed upper half, while the grounded nature of the Animal Soul is emphasized by the lower half of the structure. Number five in a series of artistic interpretations of the Tempietto of Bramante in Rome. Sitting atop Rome's highest hill, the Tempietto was the primary geographic focus for Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork--the Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde.
Scott Lund © 2011 - the Mona Lisa Code (SM)
The greatest secret in art history was declared by Scott Lund in Rome on the date 9/10/11. It was revealed to be an ingenious optical trick that Leonardo da Vinci used to transform the viewer of the Mona Lisa into the pagan Sun god Janus who looks in opposite directions simultaneously.
The Los Angeles investigative writer briefly addressed a crowd of people gathered near the ancient Colosseum, then led them to the tune of a bagpiper across the Tiber river to the top of the Janiculum hill named after the two-faced Sun god. There he identified the Tempietto of Bramante as the site where Leonardo had his vision for the world's most famous work of art. Lund states that the Mona Lisa is a personification of the elegant circular chapel built by Donato Bramante at the presumed location of the mythical citadel occupied by Janus at the beginning of Italian civilization.
Ethereal fog spells out the message in front of the great cathedral in Firenze: "Get ready Florence! The Mona Lisa Code is coming . . ."
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The Mona Lisa's left eye shines like the first rays of rosy dawn, while her right eye looks like the dying ember of last light.
I am happy to welcome Simona Sparkova as a witness to the Mona Lisa Code!
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A light like the sun shines from the eye of the Mona Lisa, suggesting her link to the Roman Sun-god Janus. Medieval letters spell out the mysterious words: "The Mona Lisa Code." According to Leonardo da Vinci, there were three types of people: Those who see; Those who see when shown, and Those who don't see. Which one are you?
Scott Lund's historic presentation reveals Da Vinci's profound star secrets in his last three paintings.
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First of some photos of Michaela Gaborova at Rome's Tempietto—the secret place where Leonardo da Vinci envisioned the Mona Lisa. Don't look for the landscape seen in the painting, the balcony wall and partial pillars behind the seated icon was really the foundation wall and pillars of this temple built by Donato Bramante. (photo by Massimo Casavecchia and Scott Lund) Special thanks to Trastevere App of Rome for their support and assistance.
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A mysterious cloud of words hovers in the moonlight over Florence. Are they clues to the secret of the Mona Lisa Code?
The Mona Lisa Code artistically expressed by Scott Lund as a grungy positive/negative halftone image.
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Excitement and expectation are seen in the eyes of the Mona Lisa. What will happen in Florence. Time will tell . . .
Make coffee great again! A good old-fashioned cup of Joe from Joe the waiter at the Sunshine Cafe—a Coachella Valley caffeine hangout for in-the-know diner denizens. Ask for a cappuccino and they'll kick your ass out. Really!
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Author, adventurer, artist, musician, and visionary, Scott Lund uncovered Da Vinci's greatest secret—the Mona Lisa Code, now being made into a movie. www.MonaLisaCode.com #MonaLisaCode #ScottLund #LeonardoDaVinci #MonaLisa #Hollywood #davincicode #film #motionpictures