The gallery was restored and enhanced under Pope Urban VIII a century after it was created. Danti is also credited with the brass orrery that sits in the hall. The ceiling frescoes illustrate stories from the lands depicted below. Now also with discriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius. Each regional map is accompanied by a detailed view of its major city. Provides illustrated information on every map of all different editions that have appeared of Ortelis Atlas and gives valuable information on the dating of the origin of the maps. One map shows the Battle of Fornovo, the first battle in the Italian Wars against France. Details of the large frescoes show the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and large-scale maps of the maritime republics of Venice and Genoa.
#Antique maps ortelius install
The ambitious project to install 40 enormous and highly accurate maps began in 1580 and took just 18 months to complete. To top that, Gregory set his sights on the 120 meter long corridor on the third floor of the Belvedere Courtyard. Huge maps of the known world capped by a ceiling of stars were painted in the early 1500s in the Loggia della Cosmografia under the guidance of Pope Julius II (primarily remembered for commissioning Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel). More significantly, before Danti took up his post in Bologna, he had spent a decade creating the magnificent hall of maps known as the Sala delle Carte Geografiche at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence at the behest of Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence. By the late 1500s the famous mapmakers Mercator and Ortelius were creating their landmark world maps.
A very attractive and much sought-after late 16th century map black and white map of South-east Asia by Abraham Ortelius from a Latin edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum published by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp in 1595, 1601 or 1609. For Sale on 1stDibs - Antique map titled Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. The age of exploration had brought new knowledge of distant lands, and technical innovations like the magnetic compass, sextant, and telescope improved accuracy. Antique Map South-East Asia by Ortelius titled ‘INDIAE ORIENTALIS, INSULARUMQVE ADIACENTI: VM TY: PVS’. Danti had come to Rome from his post as mathematics professor in Bologna to help the pope with his efforts to correct the inaccurate Julian Calendar using modern Renaissance mathematics and astronomy.Īt the time, cartography was undergoing its own renaissance. Pope Gregory XIII commissioned the maps from his cosmographer, the multi-talented Italian priest Ignazio Danti. Predating a unified Italy by nearly 300 years, the gallery of maps at the Vatican shows the length and breadth of the peninsula circa 1580.
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