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Topography of the City of RomeThe Urbis Romae Topographia written by Bartolomeo Marliani in 1544, is a book exploring the city of Rome and includes maps that depict the city. In…
The Spheres of the Heavens and the PlanetsLe Sphaerae Coelestis et Planetarum [The Spheres of the Heavens and the Planets], also referred to as De Sphaera, is one of the most elaborate…
The Queen Mary AtlasThe surviving vellum manuscript known as the “Queen Mary Atlas'' consists of 24 pages each the size of a small coffee table (580 by 500 mm), including…
The Portolan Atlas of 1546 of Battista AgneseBattista Agnese was one of the most prolific Venetian cartographers of the second half of the sixteenth century. Although he is often written off as…
The Margrave and Elector of BrandenburgThis map is titled in English: The Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg: which makes up part of the region of Upper Saxony, divided into its main…
The Atlas of Borso D'EsteAround 1466 Nicolaus Germanus was able to convert information contained in Ptolemy’s Geography into an atlas of the world that he would eventually…
This map can be understood as a detail of a T-O map of the world. Europe is the fourth part of the world when Asia occupies half the circle and the…
When you look at the circle in God’s left hand, what do you see? To medieval cartographers, this three-part circle represented the earth. If you…
Rome in the time of Clement VIIIThe Plan of Rome by Antonio Tempesta, created by Antonio Tempesta in 1593, is an enormous map of the city that stretches across 12 separate plates.…
Road to Rome mapThis is a facsimile of a rare colored version of a black and white woodcut map that highlights routes to travel from central European countries to…