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Description: 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...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.171-207
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00316.9
Description: 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...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-13
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00316.1

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