7.2 Gallery of Maps

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TitleGallery of Maps

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Creator roleArchitect

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Object typeArchitecture

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LocationVatican Museums, Vatican City

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SubjectsArchitecture, Renaissance--ItalyGalleria delle carte geografiche (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)World maps--Early works to 1800

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7. The Gallery of Maps

Francesca Fiorani

The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy

~In his new corridor along the Belvedere Courtyard, Gregory XIII chose to represent Italy through a series of regional maps of the peninsula, a veritable cartographic achievement that, like Cosimo I’s maps of the world, had no precedent in print or in paint. The cartographic representation of Italy that Gregory had painted on the walls of the papal residence...

Author

Francesca Fiorani

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.171-207

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00316.9

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Chapter subject tags:Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585Galleria delle carte geografiche (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Cartography--Italy--HistoryChristian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450–1600Pictorial maps, Renaissance

1. Interpreting Renaissance Map Cycles

Francesca Fiorani

The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy

~This book is about the interactions of mapping with other forms of knowledge and representation in the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation. It examines the place of cartography in two famous courts, the court of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1537–1574) and the papal court of Gregory XIII Boncompagni (1572–85). These two rulers, like others of the...

Author

Francesca Fiorani

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-13

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00316.1

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Chapter subject tags:Cartography--Italy--HistoryWorld maps--Early works to 1800Danti, Ignazio, 1536-1586Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance--ItalyGregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574Florence (Italy)--HistoryRome (Italy)--HistoryVatican Palace (Vatican City)

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