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This makes Fra Mauro's mappa mundi the world's largest extant map from early modern Europe. The map is drawn on high-quality vellum and is set in a gilded wooden frame. The large drawings are highly detailed and use a range of expensive colors; blue, red, turquoise, brown, green, and black are among the pigments used.
Detailed Fra Mauro Mappa Mundi 1459/60 at bottom of article; Ancient World Maps; 1452 Mappamundi by Giovanni Leardo held at the American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee; Mappa Mundi Hereford Digital Mappa Mundi exploration; More information and Mappa mundi images can be found at the Cornell University: Persuasive Cartography: The PJ ...
Bust of Fra Mauro. Fra Mauro, O.S.B. Cam., (c.1400–1464) was an Italian (Venetian) cartographer who lived in the Republic of Venice. He created the most detailed and accurate map of the world up until that time, the Fra Mauro map. Mauro was a monk of the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Michael, located on the island of Murano in the Venetian ...
The map of Andreas Walsperger is a Latin Mappa Mundi, atypical in its depiction of Africa and in its placing a large castle in China, where others including Fra Mauro's place their grand castle to the north. In Germany, the only other example of the type is the "Mappa mundi Ciziensis" from Zeitz. The parchment measures 57.7 x 75 cm.
The Fra Mauro map was made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in diameter. The original world map was made by Fra Mauro and his assistant Andrea Bianco, a sailor-cartographer, under a commission by king Afonso V of Portugal .
The Fra Mauro Map (c. 1450) shows the "Island of Dragons" (Italian: Isola de' dragoni), an imaginary island in the Atlantic Ocean. [7] In an inscription near Herat in modern-day Afghanistan , Fra Mauro says that in the mountains nearby "there are a number of dragons, in whose forehead is a stone that cures many infirmities", and describes the ...
Fra Mauro is the worn remnant of a walled lunar plain. It is part of the surrounding Fra Mauro formation , being located to the northeast of Mare Cognitum and southeast of Mare Insularum . Attached to the southern rim are the co-joined craters Bonpland and Parry , which intrude into the formation forming inward-bulging walls.
Fra Mauro map Creator Fra Mauro. Support as nominator Bewareofdog 21:54, 11 August 2007 (UTC) Oppose - The Fra Mauro mappa mundi is one of the most precious historical maps in the world. It was ordered by king Afonso V of Portugal but considered of little value because it didn't agree with the geographical knowledge of the world the Portuguese ...