Originally posted on sextantbook:
I’ve just been in Rome where I was lucky enough to see some huge maps painted in the 1580s on the walls outside the offices of the Papal foreign office. They form a kind of mural atlas covering all the known world – and quite a lot that was then unknown! The…![]()
I’ve just been in Rome where I was lucky enough to see some huge maps painted in the 1580s on the walls outside the offices of the Papal foreign office. They form a kind of mural atlas covering all the known world – and quite a lot that was then unknown! The…
