TL;DR – Today, we map the journey of the crew in Fountain of Youth.

Mapping the Fountain of Youth –

I realised today, as I was watching today’s titular movie, that I had not made a map in a while. Sure, I have a couple that I am still working on that you should see soon, but a fresh map with a fresh source that has been a while. Now, if you have read our review of Fountain of Youth, you will know that we did not have a great time with the film. But that does not mean that there is nothing worth mapping.

One of the things I found interesting as I mapped everything out was the fact that we never actually visited any of the places where the artefacts were created in the first place. For example, we have Tibetan scrolls, but we go nowhere near central Asia.

• Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ: Rome;
• Rubbens’ The Decent from the Cross: Antwerp;
• Wilden’s Christ and Disciples On the Road to Emmaus: Antwerp;
• Velázquez’s Christ Crucified: Madrid
• El Greco’s Christ Carrying the Cross: Toledo
• Rembrandt’s Head of Christ: Amsterdam
• Wicked Bible: London, which we visit in the film, but the Bible is found in Vienna, which is not a location of any of the 15 known copies.

We then get the overlay of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which is quite interesting because it is clear that they are flowing the list set down by the Octo Mundi Miracula in 1572, but back in the 1630s, the exact list of which wonders were on that list was still very much up for debate.

• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia
• Temple of Artemis
• Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
• Colossus of Rhodes
• Lighthouse of Alexandria

Interestingly, it looks like artists in the 1600s were very much ahead of their time, as they spotted the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Nineveh, as many modern scholars also do. Arguing that the gardens recorded were actually those created by the Assyrian King Sennacherib.

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In the end, while I didn’t much enjoy the film, I did have fun putting together this map because I got to do a deep dive into the art history of the 1600s and the Wonders of the World, and if you have ever seen any of my maps before, you know I love wonders. Have you watched Fountain of Youth? Let us know what you thought in the comments below. If you want to see all our maps, please see HERE, and if you like us to map another part of Pop Culture, let us know in the comments below.

Credits –

– The World Map that we used as a base several iterations ago was created by ‘San Jose’ which is shared with a Creative Commons Licence.

– The Nation detail maps America, Antarctica, Anticosti, Argentina,  Australia 1, Australia 2, Azores, British Isles,  Canada, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Caspian Sea, China, Cook Islands, Europe Relief, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Funchal, Gilbert Islands, Germany, Great Lakes, Greece, Hawaii, Iceland, India, Italy, Jan Mayen,  Japan, Karachi, India, Madagascar, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Micronesia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Zealand, Netherlands, Northern Mariana Islands, Provinces Maritimes, Réunion, Samoa, Scandinavia, Seychelles, South Africa, South Georgia, Spain, Taiwan, Tonga, USA Midwest and Northeast & Vietnam that we used for reference were shared with a Creative Commons Licence or was in the public domain. They were originally created by Aotearoa, Alexrk2, Antigoni, CIA, Dr Wilson, E Pluribus Anthony, Frantishak, Fut Perf, HectorMoffet, Htonl, Kelisi, Koyos, L. Claudel, Li Chao, Maximilian Dörrbecker, Mrflip, Mysid, NASA, NgaViet, NordNordWest, Phizzy, Radosław Botev, Saqib Qayyum, Sémhur, Shadowfox, Silver Spoon, Sting, Szczureq, The Emirr, Tschubby, Tubs, Tyk, United States Corps of Engineers, United States Department of the Interior, Uwe Dedering, Visitor from Wikishire, Wikimedia Commons, Yavidaxiu & Yug.
By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Twitter Here, when he’s not chatting about Movies and TV, he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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