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Gallery of Maps
Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
Photograph by GKSihat © All Rights Reserved
£1.10
The Galleria delle Carte Geografiche (or the Gallery of Maps) in the Vatican Museums contains a series of topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by the friar and geographer, Ignazio Danti. The gallery was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in 1580 and took three years to complete.
Gallery of Maps
Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
Photograph by GKSihat © All Rights Reserved
Dimensions | 54 × 155 mm |
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