The Gallery of Maps - Vatican City State
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N 41° 54.402 E 012° 27.213
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The Gallery of Maps, known as the Galleria delle carte geografiche in Italian, is located inside the Vatican Museum.
Waymark Code: WMPW00
Location: Vatican City State
Date Posted: 10/27/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
Views: 13

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"The Gallery of Maps[1] (Italian: Galleria delle carte geografiche) is a gallery located on the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican containing a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.

The gallery was commissioned in 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII as part of other artistic works commissioned by the Pope to decorate the Vatican. It took Danti three years (1580–1583) to complete the 40 panels of the 120 m long gallery.

Design

Map of Italy, Corsica and Sardinia – The Gallery of Maps – Vatican Museums.
The panels map the entirety of the Italian peninsula in large-scale frescoes, each depicting a region as well as a perspective view of its most prominent city.

With the Apennines as a partition, one side depicts the regions surrounded by the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas and the other depicts the regions surrounded by the Adriatic Sea.

Other decorations

The decorations on the vaulted ceiling are the work of a group of Mannerist artists including Cesare Nebbia and Girolamo Muziano."
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