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  2. Gherardini family - Wikipedia

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    Other known artists of the Gherardini family were Tommaso Gherardini, Stefano Gherardini, Melchiorre Gherardini, and Niccolò Gherardini, a friend of Galileo Galilei and his personal biographer. [32] Niccolo wrote the first biography of Galileo named Vita del signor Galileo Galilei (Life of Signor Galileo Galilei), and was a relative of Pope ...

  3. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...

  4. Lisa del Giocondo - Wikipedia

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    The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 and its travels to Asia and North America during the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the painting's iconization and fame. [68] By the end of the 20th century, the painting was a global icon that had been used in more than 300 other paintings and in 2,000 advertisements, appearing at an average ...

  5. 1935 map of Shanghai at Shanghai International Settlement, by the Army Map Service Map of the Exposition Universelle of 1900 , by GTC Map of Brazil in the Miller Atlas , by Pedro Reinel , Lopo Homem , Jorge Reinel and António de Holanda

  6. Piri Reis map - Wikipedia

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    Kept in the Topkapı Palace Museum, [25] the map is the remaining western third of a world map drawn on gazelle-skin parchment approximately 87 cm × 63 cm. [e] The surviving portion shows the Atlantic Ocean with the coasts of Europe, Africa, and South America. [26]

  7. File:WikiProject Asian Americans map.svg - Wikipedia

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    This image is a derivative work of the following images: BlankMap-World-180E.svg licensed with PD-self 2008-04-13T22:24:07Z Lokal Profil 940x477 (3620359 Bytes) {{Information |Description=A blank map of the world centered at the 180E longitude line. Detailed SVG map with grouping enabled to connect all non-contiguous parts of a country's ...

  8. FitzGerald dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Since the 15th century, the FitzGeralds and the Gherardinis are known to be in touch and to acknowledge their kinship. [ 40 ] [ 29 ] [ 41 ] [ 16 ] A 2014 cover story published by "Sette", the Italian weekly magazine of Corriere della Sera , was an article dedicated to the Gherardini family of Montagliari and their relationship with the ...

  9. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima ...

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    The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California" .