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China
Ignazio Danti1575
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "China…is inhabited by people very similar to Italians in their habits, and in the whiteness and quality of their body. In this province a great quantity of silk, gold, wool and cotton cloths is produced. They started using printing and artillery before us, but among other things they produce porcelain..." Photo: Rabatti&Domingie
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- Title: China
- Creator Lifespan: 1536 - 1586
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Alatri
- Creator Birth Place: Perugia
- Date Created: 1575
- cartographer: Egnazio Danti
- Theme: map
- Physical Dimensions: w68 x h115 cm (Complete)
- Original title: Cina
- Historical information: The panels in the Maps'Room are 53. 30 out of these were realized by the dominican friar from Perugia Egnazio Danti, the court cosmographer from 1553 to 1575; the remaining 23 were realized by the olivetan monk Stefano Bonsignori from 1576 to 1586. The panels show all the world as known at the time.
- Type: oil painting on wood
- Rights: Comune di Firenze, Comune di Firenze
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