Reconstruction of the original sequence of the map panels in the Guardaroba Nuova

This appendix proposes a reconstruction of the original layout of the maps of the Guardaroba Nuova. This sequence of the maps, which differs from their current display in Palazzo Vecchio, is based on Giorgio Vasari’s description of the Guardaroba Nuova in his Lives and on the geographical order that Giacomo Gastaldi adopted in his edition of Ptolemy’s Geography (Venice,...

On 15 May 1540, three years after he had been elected Head of the Florentine Republic and had masterfully succeeded to keep his rule over Florence, Cosimo I de’ Medici, his wife Eleanor of Toledo...