Gambi, Lucio.

The gallery of maps in the Vatican / Lucio Gambi ; translated by Paul Tucker.

1st ed.

New York : George Braziller, 1997.

1 atlas (208 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm

In a long bright corridor in the Vatican Palace is one of the world's treasures: the Gallery of Maps. Commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in 1580, the Gallery offers a "walking-tour" of Italy's history through forty richly decorated and detailed map frescoes of Italy and its regions. In this volume, each of the forty maps is thoroughly discussed and splendidly illustrated with 143 pages in color. The maps were designed by Egnazio Danti, a Dominican monk and well known cosmographer and mathematician invited by Pope Gregory XIII to leave the University of Bologna and settle in Rome to undertake the decoration of the Gallery.

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Cartography Italy History.
Mural painting and decoration, Italian Vatican City 16th century.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Vatican City.
Cartographie Italie Histoire.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Vatican.
Cartography
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Mural painting and decoration, Italian
Italy Maps Early works to 1800.
Italy
Vatican City

Early works
History
Maps
Cartes géographiques.

Tucker, Paul, 1956-

Maps in the Vatican

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 204126
Cote: N2940 .G46 1997
Statut: Disponible