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List of illustrations

  • Guardaroba Nuova
  • Central Asia (Sogdiana)
  • Gallery of Maps
  • Map of the Territory of Perugia (Perusinus ac Tifernas)
  • Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
  • Sala Grande
  • Guardaroba Nuova
  • Reconstruction of the original sequence of the map panels in the Guardaroba Nuova
  • Map of Arabia (Arabia)
  • The Strait of Magellan
  • List of Portraits in the Museum of the Most Illustrious and Excellent Signor Cosimo, Duke of Florence and Siena
  • Indian Chicken (Gallina Indica)
  • Terza Loggia
  • Saturn Castrating Heaven
  • Saturn Receiving the Tribute of the Earth
  • Putti Holding a Globe
  • Hercules Holding the Globe
  • Design for a Fountain with the Labors of Hercules
  • Allegorical Relief
  • Triumphal Arch at Porta Romana for Charles V's entry into Milan
  • Allegorical Portrait of Charles V
  • Instrument of the First Mover (Instrumentum Primi Mobili)
  • Astrolabe
  • Astronomical Quadrant
  • Armillary Sphere
  • Trattato dell'uso et della fabrica dell'astrolabio
  • The Incoronation of Cosimo I, detail
  • The Coronation of Cosimo I
  • Guardaroba Nuova, view from the Sala dei Gigli
  • Glass Window
  • Damascene spherical perfume-burner
  • Sportello for one of Cosimo's studies
  • Tesoretto
  • Map of the World (Nova totius terrarum orbis iuxta neotericorum traditiones descriptio), detail
  • Map of Hindustan Outside the Ganges (Indostan fuori il Gange)
  • Studiolo of Francesco I
  • Celadon Plate and Vase
  • Map of China (China)
  • Falcon hood with ivory stand bearing the Medici-Toledo coat of arms
  • Map of Armenia (Armenia)
  • Mixteco-Pueblo Mask
  • Map of Mexico (Nuova Spagna)
  • Oliphant bearing the Medici-Toledo coat of arms
  • Map of Côte d'Avoire (Parte dell'Agisamba)
  • Map of the Known World
  • First Map of Europe (Tabula Europae I)
  • Modern Map of the British Isles (Anglia et Hibernia Nova)
  • Cosmographia universalis
  • Theatrum orbis terrarum
  • Geography. Modern Geographical Maps…collected and arranged according to Ptolemy's order
  • Tenth Map of Europe (Tabula Europae X)
  • Muscovy (Moschovia)
  • Liber cosmographicus
  • Modern Map of the World for Navigators (Nova et aucta orbis terrae descriptio ad usum navigatium)
  • Map of the World (Cosmographia universalis)
  • Map of Europe
  • Map of the Scandinavian Peninsula (Norvegia Gotiae)
  • Map of the British Isles (Isole Britanniche, le quali co(n)tengono il Regno di Inghilterra et di Scotia con L'Hibernia)
  • Map of the British Isles (Britania insula quae duo regna continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia adiacente)
  • Livonia and Lithuania (Livonia et Lituania)
  • Map of Russia, Moscovy, and Tartary (Russiae Moschoviae et Tartariae Descriptio)
  • Madagascar (Isola di San Lorenzo)
  • Africa
  • Map of Africa (Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell'Africa)
  • Map of the Western Coast of Africa (Libia interiore)
  • Map of East and South-east Asia (Il disegno della terza parte dell'Asia)
  • Map of India (Parte del India Dentro al Gange Hoggi detta Indostan)
  • Map of Indochina and Indonesia
  • Map of China and Japan
  • Map of the Moluccas Islands (L'Isole Moluche con l'altre circonvicine che producano le gioie et le spetierie)
  • Map of Asia (Asiae orbis partium maximae nova descriptio)
  • Map of the World (Nova totius terrarum orbis iuxta neotericorum traditiones descriptio)
  • Map of South America and Strait of Magellan
  • Map of California (Le ultime parti nel Indie occidentali)
  • Map of the Mexican Gulf
  • Zeno Map (Carta da navegar de Nicolo et Antonio Zeni)
  • Map of Greenland (Gronlandia)
  • The Old Dominion of Florence
  • The Sienese State
  • Tribuna
  • The Opening of the Porta Santa in St. Peter's for the Holy Year
  • The Seven Churches of Rome (Le sette chiese di Roma)
  • The Arrival of Gregory Nazianzus's Relics in St. Peter's
  • Reconstruction of the original layout of the Sala Bologna, Vatican (not to scale)
  • Map of Bologna
  • Map of the Territory of Bologna
  • Sky Map
  • Sala della Cosmografia
  • Map of Bologna
  • Portrait of Egnazio Danti
  • Anemographia
  • Grotesque
  • Map of the Territory of Perugia (Perusinus ac Tifernas)
  • Map of the Territory of Perugia (Descrittione del Territorio di Perugia Augusta)
  • Map of the Territory of Bologna (Bononiensis Ditio)
  • Flaminia
  • Latium
  • Map of the Territory of Orvieto (Urbis Veteris Antiquae Ditionis Descriptio)
  • Radius latinus
  • Giulio Danti's Surveying Instrument
  • The Palace of Signor Della Volta
  • Villa of Count Ercolani, Bologna
  • The Town of Castelfranco
  • The Villages of Castel San Pietro and Vargnano
  • View of the Belvedere Courtyard
  • Gallery of Maps
  • North Entrance, Gallery of Maps
  • View of Genoa
  • View of Venice
  • Map of Ancient Italy (Italia antiqua)
  • Map of Modern Italy (Italia nova)
  • Map of Campania (Campania), detail
  • Map of Campania (Campania), detail
  • Map of Campania (Campania)
  • The Miracle of the Blood of St. Januarius in Naples
  • Stopping the Lava on Aetna by Holding St. Agata's Veil
  • Stopping the Lava on Aetna by Holding St. Agata's Veil
  • Adam's Sacrifice of Praise
  • Cartouche
  • Map of the Territory of Perugia (Perusinus ac Tifernas), detail
  • Map of Apulia (Apulia), detail
  • Map of Piceno (Picenum)
  • Map of the Territory of Milan (Mediolanensis Ducatus)
  • Map of the Territory of Bologna (Bononiensis Ditio), detail
  • Flaminia, detail
  • Flaminia, detail
  • St. Michael the Archangel Appearing on Monte Gargano
  • Map of Apulia (Apulia)
  • Map of the Roman Empire (Romani Imperii Imago)
  • Chorography of St. Paul's Peregrinations (Peregrinationis divi Pauli Typus Chorographicus)
  • Map of Ancient Italy (Italia antiqua), detail
  • Map of Modern Italy (Italia nova), detail
  • St. Sylvester Baptizing Emperor Constantine
  • Emperor Constantine Building the Basilica of St. Peter's
  • Emperor Constantine Building the Basilica of St. Paul
  • Emperor Constantine Holding the Reins of St. Sylvester's Horse
  • Constantine's Vision of the Cross Before the Battle at the Milvian Bridge
  • The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism
  • The Donation of Constantine
  • The Priest Leading the Bullock to the Temple for the Communal Sacrifice
  • The Priest Cutting the Throat of the Bullock and Collecting its Blood in a Basin
  • The Priest Sprinkling Blood on the Curtain of the Sanctuary
  • The Priest Smearing the Blood on the Corners of the Altar
  • The Priest Pouring the Remaining Blood at the Foot of the Altar
  • The Priest Burning the Fat, Kidneys, and Lobes of the Liver on the Altar
  • The Priest Burning the Carcass and the Meat Outside the Camp
  • Flaminia, detail
  • Flaminia, detail
  • Countess Matilda of Canossa Donating her Possessions to the Roman Church
  • Cappella Gregoriana
  • Map of Asia Minor (Asia Minor)
  • Map of South America
  • Map of the Western Hemisphere
  • Map of the Eastern Hemisphere
  • The Procession for the Translation of Gregory of Nazianzus's Body Crosses the Bridge of Castel Sant' Angelo
  • Vault
  • Meridian Line
  • The description of the holie land and of places mencioned in the foure Evangelists
  • Map of Canaan (Tabula Terrae Canaan Abrahmea Tempore)
  • Reconstruction of the original sequence of the map panels in the Guardaroba Nuova
  • Reconstruction of the Gallery of Maps, Vatican
  • Reconstruction of the Terza Loggia, Vatican
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Description: The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy
~This book acquired a temporal and geographical extension that I could never have anticipated when I started it in Rome years ago. Along the way, I accumulated immense debts of gratitude towards the many friends and scholars who shared their insights and criticism. First and foremost, I thank the late Corrado Maltese who, in myriad Roman conversations,...
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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...
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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...
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~The iconography of the Guardaroba Nuova was devised in the last decade of Cosimo I’s rule, when the ducal imagery, which had been inspired by the model of Emperor Charles v,...
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~The cosmic imagery of the Guardaroba Nuova epitomized Cosimo I’s personal iconography, but it was also appropriate to the main function of the room as a cabinet of art and curiosities for the most beautiful objects that he possessed. If, in many respects, the Guardaroba Nuova was similar to the princely cabinets that had become common in European courts, it...
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~The maps of the Guardaroba Nuova ordered a selection of Cosimo I’s collections geographically, providing both the principle of organization of the artifacts and a visual catalogue for their storage and retrieval. But the Florentine maps also constituted a masterpiece of...
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On the evening of 24 December 1574, less than three years after he had been elected Pope, Gregory XIII Boncompagni led the most solemn procession of his pontificate...
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~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...
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~The artistic and cartographic language of the Gallery of Maps suggests, at the very least, that Gregory XIII regarded Italy, its cities, and islands, as having a privileged place within the universal church over which his spiritual power extended. Indeed, Gregory and other post-Tridentine...
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~Since the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles on the day of Pentecost, the mission of the church had been to include people from around the world into the Christian community. Adapting the classical notion of universality to fit the Christian world, the universality of the...
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~Long ago Jacob Burckhardt suggested that painted map cycles, such as the map cycles at the Medici and papal courts analyzed in this book, constituted a pictorial genre of the Italian Renaissance. However, in line with the modern skepticism regarding the taxonomy of symbolic forms, I have not pursued the study of map cycles as a pictorial genre. Rather than...
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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,...
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This appendix shows the close relations between the maps of Italy in the Gallery of Maps and Leandro Alberti’s Descrittione di tutta I’talia...
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This appendix shows the relations between the maps painted on the wall of the Terza Loggia and the religious scenes depicted on the ceiling...
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